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...large club-building previously mentioned. The only ornaments on the walls were ideographs representing the famous Inca sport of Rolo. From this we gathered that the building had been a dining-hall for athletes. In the kitchen were found the remains of elaborate ovens, and neatly tabulated parchment list of food. These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have been the custom for the athletes to chew on thongs of leather just before a contest, and to eat quantities...
...mention the dining halls in the basements of the sleeping quarters which I described in an earlier letter. These quarters, as I said, were of an unbelievably crude sort, and the food corresponded. Weeds, volcanic fish, and a conclusion of wild rice were the chief articles noted in their parchment menus. Oddly enough, we have one piece of concrete evidence--a petrified cake, apparently as fresh as on the day it was served. Cordially yours, J. BEATH-DUNCAN, With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition, Near Machu Picchu, Peru, January...
...passion for whole-sale analysis the undergraduate is serving his turn. The "what" and "why" of everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty...
...tables in the centre of the room are displayed several manuscripts which are hand-illuminated on parchment and were made by the monks of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries...
After receiving the parchment, Cardinal Meroier spoke to the student body. He urged the undergraduates not to "develop one faculty alone," but to work for the formation of a "moral personality to serve the social order. When you have finished this work," said the Cardinal, "and have learned that all converges toward a single end,--that is, God;--then you will have realized moral unity and personality, which is the most beautiful thing in the world...