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&lt;p&gt;Line 1                          Lane Seminary  August 12&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 1833&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 2              To The Faculty of Lane Seminary&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 3                                                                          We, having been appoint        &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 4              ed a Committee by the school to represent to you their&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 5              wishes respecting a change of diet, beg leave to submit&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 6              the following to your consideration. The students were&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 7              unanimously of opinion that a change of fare was&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 8              necessary for the promotions of health and success in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 9              their studies, they, therefore in order not to be precipitated&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 10            or unadvised in this matter, appointed a committee of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 11            eight to recommend to the school such change as would&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 12            be proper and desirable.  The Committee after due de-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 13            liberation unanimously agreed to recommend the fol-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 14            lowing articles which were unanimously adopted by&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 15            the School; viz for Breakfast and dinner &amp;amp; Supper&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 16            in the following order.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 17            Breakfast, Wheat bread, warm hash and butter or&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 18            cold boiled, or fried ham baked potatoes &amp;amp; butter.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Line 20            beef, beef steak, or bacon, or mutton, with appropriate&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 21            vegetables.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 22            Supper, corn bread &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; corn mush or rice together with&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Line 24            Besides, baked apples, bread pudding, or rice pudding,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 25            or apple dumplings and stewed apples were recommend-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 26            ed as a variety.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 27            We wish the articles specified to be of a good quality&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 28            and well cooked.    Respectfully Yours in behalf of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 29            the school&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 30                                                Josiah Porter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 31                                                Samuel C. Masters                  Committee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 32                                                Joseph Weeks&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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