[Ads-l] Antedating of "food fight"

[Steven Losie]

FOOD FIGHT (OED3, 1924)

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[headline] W.U. Students In Protest At Meals, Have A Food Fight

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Sweet potatoes, dumplings and chunks of bread flew across the broad nave of
Thomas Hall, the dining room of Washington University, and smote the pates
of undergraduates and waiters, in a "food fight" held by students at
opposite tables Tuesday evening.
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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 29 Oct 1913, p.5, col.3 (ProQuest)


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The affair began by a food-fight between the freshmen and the sophomores at
Sunday evening Commons in 1819[...]
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Source: Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, Mass.), 19 May 1921, p.755,
col.1 (Google Books)
Article title: The History of "Commons" at Harvard — III
Author: Samuel F. Batchelder
https://books.google.com/books?id=MXrOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA755&dq=%22food+fight%22

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