Word: prandial
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...passing of Memorial, attributes it to an increasing habit of "eating about" at quick-lunch counters, cafeterias and the like. This is one of those explanations that need explaining. If it is true that civilized man cannot live without dining, it is doubly true that the hours of prandial relaxation have a peculiar value in undergraduate life. Dr. Lowell speaks of Memorial as a place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around a common table." But if it had really afforded...
...well-known London restaurant, the eight lady Members oif Parliament will sit down to a prandial celebration. Those who accepted the invitation: The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Lady Astor (Conservative), Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal), Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative), Miss Margaret Bondfield (Labor). Those to be heard from were: Lady Terrington (Liberal), Mrs. D. Jewson and Miss Susan Lawson (Laborites...
...Point, the keg-tappers start their work. On arriving at the Point, baseball games, track meets and swimming races will occupy the time until the tempting odor of a barbecue announces the serving of a collation by Oscar, of the Waldorf. Singing by class talent will beguile the post-prandial half-hour. At about 4.30 the "King Philip" will again weigh anchor and proceed to Rowe's Wharf...
...College Kodaks, however, that Harvard men who aspire to be periodical post-prandial speakers will find perhaps the most interesting matter of the issue. For there are at least two distinctly good humorous stories or ancedotes - the fourth and the sixth Kodaks - and all of them are above of the average...
President Eliot has excited the ire of some religious newspapers. The Guardian delicately observes: "As the maudlin president of Harvard once said in a post-prandial speech." The Christian at Work says: "It is simply untrue that 'seminaries bid against each other for young mendicants.' The language is as slanderous in spirit as it is offensive in form...