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...year, the necessary work will be immediately commenced, and it is hoped that the hall will be ready for the club at the beginning of the next academic year. As has been stated before, the tables in the new hall will seat twelve, and to each table one waiter will be given. A professional steward will be hired by the Corporation at a salary of $1,500 a year. In order to keep the price of board at the lowest, in addition the steward will be given 10 cents for each man if the price...
...with three beefsteaks, two mutton-chops, fried potatoes, two cups of tea, two glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard. Skiapous lost fourteen pounds on that trip...
...waiter at a boarding-house, near Harvard's classic halls...
...deserted depot which provided ample accommodation for one hundred students in 1865 affords but scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...