Word: teas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...directly from the lake. Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their guests. We first drank tea with the kind friend who invited us, and we were then taken through the upper part of the building. We passed up the stairs, through the halls. Elegant pictures adorned the walls, statuary and tropical plants were frequently seen, and, indeed, everything was beautiful...
...large number. How we did enjoy it; but how much more we should have enjoyed it if we could have had occasional intermissions of five minutes in which to rest our tired tongue. The time sped rapidly, and we soon saw darkness creep around us. We took tea at Stone Hall, in a room with twenty girls governed by matrons. They have a pleasant little custom at Wellesley meals. All are obliged to stand until every one has arrived, when there is a sudden and systematic pulling out of chairs, and then all take their seats at the same time...
...accounts of base ball games, and contests at this and other colleges, should make the CRIMSON an indispensable part of college life. "We would therefore," in the words of Addison, "recommend these our productions to all well disposed students that set apart a half hour in every morning for tea, bread and butter, and would heartily advise them for their good, to order the paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as part of the tea equipage." Those who have not subscribed can do so at the Co-operative rooms for the remaining half year...
...gone feeling that work under such conditions brings, and which would frequently say by them all day. Then their bill of fare would contain little else than underdone beef or mutton, stale bread, a very stingy allowance of potatoes, and none at all of any other vegetables; sometimes tea, never any other drink but water, two for dinner, and one for supper, and not even this much, if they could possibly do without it, and with nothing at all between meals; and this, no matter how fierce the heat and how severe their work...
...food containing more carbon, such as ham and sausages, which should always be eaten cold. Three years ago this would have been considered ridiculous by trainers, but for a diet for running, walking and rowing, it has been found that saccharine food, with beef or mutton, is the best ; tea, coffee and alcohol, as well as condiments, are objectionable ; indeed, it is not the quantity of food a person eats that strengthens him, but the amount assimilated and worked into the organism...