Word: meats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...argued that food has gone up. Everything costs more, especially meat. The remedy is to have less meat, but have that little well cooked. The meat is not so bad when bought, probably, but it is ruined in the cooking. The reason that it costs so much to run Memorial is that there is so much waste. One has to order so much meat to get a piece that he can eat. If everything was well cooked and nicely prepared, there would be nothing sent back to the screen. Now, every man in the hall orders the whole bill...
...crisp, or not half done? It seems to me that either we should have new cooks, or else those in our employ should have a special superintendent appointed over them to see that they serve things decently. I will not complain of the wretchedly poor cooking of the meat that we have every evening, though it is hardly fit to eat, but I would like to be able to order from the extra bill of fare something that I could relish...
FROM THE E???.BRAN and Meal, '8, have been expelled from the MR. DURNEM will meat his sections in Shphmor Stewed Rhetoric at three o'clock...
...time and spot that one would choose to read a good novel. Are you fond of novels? But I suppose they are forbidden in the college." " Nothin's forbidden, 'cept young men," replied she; "and I don't take much stock in novels, anyhow. There ain't enough meat to 'em, - lot of girls and men that don't know anything, nor can't talk about anything 'cept each other and love; oh! awful stuff...
...tremendous; but, above all, the Musical Member at the head of the table was to be heard singing his composition, at the top of his lungs, to a man at the other end, while he beat time with the carving knife, entirely unconscious of the frantic appeals for meat from the man on his right. At this point the Freshman gets up in his chair and yells...