COLLEGE COMMONS
In University language “commons” is the allowance of food provided for breakfast and lunch out of the college kitchen or buttery. The name seems to have originated in the practice of eating at a common table. In Dryden we read: — “Their commons, tho’ but coarse, were nothing scant.” The word “short” is frequently used for a deficiency in anything,- especially provisions. Shakespeare has —.- “We shall be short in our provision. Taken together, therefore, the words apply to a scanty supply of food.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 February 1931, Page 3
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84COLLEGE COMMONS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 February 1931, Page 3
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