Word: meats
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...average daily consumption at Memorial Hall is: Of flour, about two and a half barrels; of milk, one hundred and twenty gallons; of meat, one thousand pounds. Four hundred and fifty pounds of turkey are usually demolished in one dinner, and it takes a barrel of fruit to furnish dessert...
...large number of the inhabitants, we should judge some five thousand, were compelled by the Legislature to board together. A vast amount of murmuring was the natural result. Almost every paper speaks of it. The price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials...
...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...believe, a well-established fact that coarse food, such as baked beans or inferior joints of meat, which is easily digested by a man who works hard in the open air, will not nourish the more delicate organs of a man who is chiefly occupied in brain-work, and that the latter needs a higher style of living. Perhaps I can make my objections clearer by analyzing the effect which Memorial Hall fare has on me. I do not think that the amount of studying which I do is too much; I am always regular in my exercise...
...would suggest that the quantity of fish, if it is absolutely necessary for us to have fish every Friday, be reduced one third or one half, and that some kind of hot meat be substituted, for the benefit of those students who dislike fish. A similar change might be made on other days. Heretofore we have been accustomed to partake of mutton once a week, and have had veal quite a number of times. Now some persons dislike mutton exceedingly, and a great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner...