Word: meals
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Before we had finished the meal the boy had asked me about my collar and my waistcoat, and as I pride myself on the modesty of my dress, these little attentions on his part did not increase my love and affection for the child. I have always admired the sound common-sense of the old gentleman who, when asked if he liked children, said he was very fond of them in Bougereau...
...imagine, when I tell you that at one table at my end of the Hall a regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on subjects of every kind. I have heard them discuss free-thought in all its aspects at one meal, and at the next the probable course of Mukhtar Pasha. They keep a war-map at the table for reference. I can overhear every word they say, though there are two or three tables between us. Their violent gestures and reckless use of knives and forks may give force...
...whether breakfast at Memorial Hall shall be later on Sunday than on other days has been in favor of the change. It is only in the meeting of the Directors that opposition to a late breakfast has been made. The Directors seem to have thought rather of prolonging the meal half an hour than of postponing it. On Sunday mornings less than ten men come to breakfast before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half an hour if the boarders...
...inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental, would take place. Should we fail, by reason of a morning nap or otherwise, to reach the hall before this early hour, either breakfast or chapel must be sacrificed. A modifying suggestion to extend the breakfast hour from seven to half past...
...seems to me that we could dispense with much trouble, and often mortification, by politely requesting our guests to call at some other time, or, in other words, exclude visitors from the gallery during meal-times. To the public this would not be a very great deprivation, however novel a sight it may be to see "the animals fed," and certainly it would be slightly more edifying to the students to dine in private. We are not fed at the public expense; why, then, should our dining-hall be a public one? We enjoy at all times a guest...