Word: meals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep the building in order, and wait upon the tables at meal-time. They go cheerfully about their work, whistling and humming their own soft melodies. One wonders if they are conscious of the significance of the scarlet stain which at noontide the sunlight casts across the floor at their feet from the memorial window...
...English correspondent writes: "It may be of interest to your readers to know something of the life that is led by the students at Girton. The plan is to have all the meals in the dining hall; breakfast is supplied there from 8 to 9, lunch from 12 to 3, and dinner, which is, of course, a general meal, at 6. Tea is sent to the students' own rooms; about 4 o'clock the cheerful rattling of teacups is heard in the corridors, and announces the arrival of the servants with a large trayful of cups. These trays are taken...
EDITORS HERALD : Why is it that about every second day it occurs that one waiter has two tables at Memorial to attend to. Whenever one waiter takes a meal's vacation his table have to go without that meal. Every waiter should be made to provide a substitute when he "spends an evening...
...turkey, and so on. Almost every day something gives out. As the student is given an hour's range he ought to have some assurance that, if he comes at the latter end of that hour, he will not be told that all the best part of the meal has given out. It certainly is reasonable to expect that the steward has had enough experience, by this time, to enable him to calculate how much food it will take...
...wealthier students board at comfortable boarding-houses and get a full meal, and probably, too, eat French dishes and drink champagne twice a week in Boston; but the poorer class has to choose between a cheap and nasty boarding-house and Memorial Hall, and so does not get that amount of nutrition which a young man in full physical and intellectual activity requires, whereas in well-qualified hands Memorial Hall might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision...