Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which we are so much accustomed, yet they did not end until an hour after the time expected. The programme was too long for two hours. Much of the pleasure that would have been taken in the boxing and wrestling was lost because they came at the hour of lunch. Many left before they began, and the others who remained seemed impatient and eager for the end. If to-morrow's programme is divided, and only half of it given, the change will be agreeable to spectators...
...questions, the questions themselves should be such that they will allow time for the extra work. When the instructor looks over the books, I trust he will bear in mind the fact that they were written, in some parts, by mortals who were prevented, by a longing for lunch, from giving up their whole minds to Rhetoric...
...first that this little peculiarity must have proved quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor at the time it was indulged in. On reading further, we discovered our mistake, for "the only really unpleasant feature of the evening was that little scene around the lunch counter during the intermission. Some of those who came without ladies acted as if they were at a Delta. Kappa. peanut bum, and in spite of the entreaties of the committee and waiters, crowded, till those who were disposed to be gentlemanly had to push in to get anything...
...certainly plenty of room for further improvements. The price is too low to allow our meals to be made appetizing, and much of our food is therefore of a cheap kind; the meats are from inferior cuts, or are not well carved; we do not have anything warm at lunch; the tablecloths and napkins are coarse or small, and I do not dare to notice how seldom they are washed; in short, as I have said, while all credit is due to the managers for making our money go as far as it does, they have not enough money...
...result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they may have been better served than we, or that, while they went home to a comfortable dinner in the evening, we had to come to a tea-table as meagre as our lunch-table is now, and especially that we are at that period of our lives at which we are developing most rapidly in body and mind, and that it is therefore especially important that our food should be suitable...