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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Food should be well cooked and wholesome. Because it is well served is no reason for supposing that it is injurious. Nature has made us with different tastes and powers of digestion. It is well not to be too watchful lest we become hypochondriacs. Tea and coffee should not be taken in excess. Alcohol, on account of its disturbing effect on the digestion, should be used sparingly, especially by young people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Minot's Lecture. | 5/12/1886 | See Source »

...cause of sleep is the using up of potential energy. When we are fatigued by excessive mental labor, prolonged sleep will not bring the needed relief. The causes of sleeplessness are, excessive study; underfeeding and improper food; breathing impure air; neglect of exercise; and worry. Strong coffee and tea are productive of insomnia. Alcohol when taken in small quantities, keeps one awake; when taken in large quantities it produces not sleep, but stupor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnham's Lecture. | 4/22/1886 | See Source »

...savage of late years that the faculty voted, July 2, to prohibit the encounter to night, and the undergraduates decided to have a closing service. Accordingly before night one of the express wagons was seen carrying a drum which was left at the end of the Cambridge Common. After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Burial Services of 1860. | 3/9/1886 | See Source »

...working of your digestive organs. Do not eat by formulae, scientific, or otherwise, but eat wholesome, well cooked food, what you want and as much as you want. Leave the consideration of your work when at meals and take them in agreeable company. Water is our natural drink; tea is foremost among artificial drinks of the English race. This latter liquid contains 26 per cent. of tannic acid and a very small amount of nitrogen. It is an excitant of respiration, induces perspiration, and cools the body. In reference to nutrition, we may say that tea increases waste, since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnum's Lecture. V. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...Hedonian club of the Annex gave a most enjoyable entertainment and tea at the house of Mrs. Arthur Gilman yesterday afternoon. Several professors and a number of the literati of Cambridge were present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/3/1885 | See Source »

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