Word: menus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat he occupied for all meals. Serving 1000 men a day under the vaulted arches of the nave, the association charged an average weekly rate of $3.95. Class wars still occurred and even bloody fights among the colored waiters, but the food was considerably better than Harvard Hall's. Menus offered roast rib of beef, braised pork tenderloin with robert sauce, "Creme d'Menthe Punch", and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sauce...
...menus may differ from other Houses' on a given night, Reynolds says, but the food is the same, cooked in similar cauldrons, albeit in a different kitchen. The same shiny serving tables are used, and the same forks and knives; the same celery stands at the end of the line...
...menus in the dining halls will not vary much. Hot mince ple or squash ple will be a choice given to everyone, and New England Plum Pudding will be served in all Houses with sweet and hard sauce. However, if you want outon you'd better go to Adams, for the other dining halls are serving vegetables soup...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...Common's menus are on the same repetitious week to week cycle that Harvard menus are, but Princeton is feeding only 1650 freshmen and sophomores from its kitchen. This puts Commons cooking on a more homey basis than the Harvard central kitchen which serves to over 3,000 students...