Word: meals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Board of Directors and college authorities, for it means the solution of a very difficult question for both. The plan worked without any appreciable friction until the adoption of the rule requiring men who eat at the general tables to get a check from the Auditor before each meal. The very first time this rule was put in operation it received a severe test, and like all new things did not work with entire smoothness. The result was immediate opposition and openly expressed dissatisfaction. The plan has worked better, however, at every succeeding meal, and was fairly satisfactory yesterday...
Last night the eleven took its first meal at the training table which is at Miss Cotter's on Oxford St. Besides Captain Trafford, twelve men were given places, viz: Lake, Hallowell, Newell, Vail, Burgess, Rantoul, Gage, D. F. Shea, Emmons, Gray, Bangs and Fearing. Mr. George Adams, the coach, and Dr. Conant dined with the eleven last night...
...that the college can easily endure to begin work a half hour earlier in the warm months and to recite a half hour later in the winter months, and that under this arrangement a stated time, though it be short, will be set apart for the noon meal. Those, on the other hand, who favor the second scheme for putting in the hour from one till two o'clock are likely to say that it is unwise to set our chapel exercises and other work of the day at so early an hour, and that the short half hour allowed...
...Oxford and Cambridge was a thing that could not be found in either the Scotch universities or these of America. A dinner at the high at any of the large colleges of Oxford or Cambridge was an experience not soon to be forgotten. At the beginning of the meal the Latin grace is said by the senior officer at the high table. in some instances it is read in alternate vetses. The body of students on the floor of the ball generally finish their dinner before the masters do, and leave the hall as soon as they are through...
...however, less the necessarily dry record of elections and bequests than the account of student life, etc. Grumblers at Memorial fare will do well to remember that in 1637-39 Mrs. Nathaniel Eaton "provided very scantily for the students." She gave them bad fish, bread made of heated sour meal and denied them cheese "when they sent for it and although she had it in the house." Anextra order list was in vogue, one finds, as early as 1734. "The buttery came to be a recognized department of the college, where students could purchase provisions. beer, cider and other extras...