Word: meats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meat and fish...
...seven o'clock and breakfast at half past. I may say here that training at Harvard, as far as food and drink are concerned, is not at all the same as it was some years ago. Then the men of the crew could only eat so many pounds of meat, and drink so many glasses of water a day. Potatoes and other vegetables were hardly allowed at all. As a consequence the men grew tired of their food, and were very apt to become overtrained by much hard work. Nowadays, however, things are very different, as one can easily judge...
...went down stairs. "These cabins at the rear are the officer's quarters," continued the guide; "from these hooks are hung swinging tables like that one over there, and mess is served on them. Twelve men sit at a table. They give us good food, nice bread, salt meat; fresh meat, and duff twice a week, Look out for your heads - its rather dark. This is the hospital," he said, taking us forward; "when a man comes on board he is measured, weighed and examined; if he is sick, he is put in here and cured." "What is this...
...first class of Harvard graduated and took their leave in a "sober and God-fearing fashion." Those were the strong and sturdy days when Fair Harvard was known as "Charles H's wooden college." when at commencement "Ye General Court of ye Massachusetts Colony did sit down at meat with ye lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when the alma mater was herself sustained by milk from "ye udders...
Provisions at New London, meat and groceries...