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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Letter. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

II.TURBOT.(a) Prove by the Darwinian theory of development that fish must always come before meat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Association of Western New York. | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

...food at Memorial does not seem to improve very fast, although the number of complaints is very large now and increasing. To be sure we have been favored with meat at luncheons, which is a little fresher, and this is an improvement, no doubt. But why should we be served with potatoes that are unfit for eating, simply because the meat is better? It is a fact that a student going to luncheon at fifteen minutes past one finds great difficulty in getting any potatoes at all, and then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

...removal, the theft can only be charged upon some of the many doubtful characters which the recent parade gathered together. No excuse need be offered by the city government in thus applying in so gentlemanly a spirit first to the undergraduates. We are sorry to say that when even meat signs and the better part of lamp posts are frequently found adorning students rooms, it is no stretch of the imagination to suppose for a moment that some patriotic student has claimed his country's flag as the fair guerdon of a night raid. But we are very loth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1886 | See Source »

...original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole was lighted up by flambeaux, and was repeatedly cheered along the route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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