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...student in his rooms dipping his beak into the Pierian spring and then throwing his head back, like a bird, to let the learning get down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes and is placed alongside some roasted joints and college-baked bread, the onlooker can draw his conclusions, and even long - as we did that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery...
...corner of the car sat a Memorial Hall waiter returning to the scenes of his daily triumphs over twelve brow-beaten individuals who submit to cold roast beef and hot vegetables or cold vegetables and hot roast beef, according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours...
...price of board at Memorial Hall, including head money, must be kept below $4.25 a week. That in order to accomplish this he is hereby to dispense with the present unnecessary variety of dishes at dinner, and while preserving the best quality of food, to have but one roast at dinner, and roast beef not more than four times a week. He shall, however, add to the order list for dinner roast beef, turkey and chicken at 20 cents, and mutton at 15 cents, and beef steak and mutton chops at 15 cents. These articles when not selected...
...clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner man as its learned and scholarly aspect to the student...
...neat little book has just appeared, for the use of the school, containing the recipes for the fifth year's course in cookery. The list of dishes is appetizing and varied, from the everyday fare of bread, roast beef and mutton cutlets, to such delicacies as orange soufflee, plum pudding with fairy butter, and frozen peaches. Certainly, after a few such courses, a girl ought to be thoroughly armed and equipped for the three-fold problem of feminine life, wherein the factors are John, Biddy and the contents of the market basket...