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This was just to get the gastric juices tuned up to digest roast turkey with cranberry sauce, baked sweet potatoes, cauliflower, boiled quail on toast with cress, and lettuce...
After the Harvard plates had been carefully set out, and as carefully removed are they were sullied by food; after the turkeys and the small pink "roast sucking pig" with candied eyes had been carried about the room in triumphal procession, after men's bellies had been filled, and men's minds put stress; after all these things, then came the play...
House dinners effect little more than simplification of the menu and crowding of the dining halls. From the undergraduate point of view they are irksome formalities which become, after long repetition, insignificant. The faculty residents converse in splendid isolation over their roast prime ribs of beef and afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...
Spinach ranks with asparagus, green peas, and green beans as the most popular vegetable served in the University dining halls according to a survey of the situation by University officials. Among the meats, steaks hold the lead with chicken, lamb chops, and roast beef following in that order...
...fire threatened the house and which was subjected to such intense heat that the 10 by 17 parchment shrunk to about 5 by 7 without making the inscription illegible. Some of the menus for class banquets show 13 kinds of game on the menu beside the main course of roast turkey...