Word: boarder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered...
...article headed "College Diet, a table boarder's notes on Memorial Hall," appeared in last evening's Record. One is forcibly reminded, while reading some portions, that fiction is often stranger than truth...
...Cambridge landlady calls a boarder "Phoenix," because he rises from the hashes and flies...
...that Memorial Hall with its new steward is in complete operation and has been running for nearly a week, a few remarks on what impression it presents to an old boarder, may not seem out of place. In the first place it must be understood that the short time that has elapsed since the opening of the hall does not, of course furnish a perfectly satisfactory basis for comment, but the general idea of what we are to expect can be gained from the number of meals we have already had. It is absolutely necessary that the hall should...
These remarks are not idle, for it they fairly indicate the critical nature of this "Boarder's" examination of the reports, it may well be doubted whether there is anything in them not perfectly clear to one who, instead of rushing into print with a question, bestows a fair amount of careful thought on the statements before him. It is desirable, however, that the members of the Dining Association should have clear knowledge of the "crockery" and "repair" assessments and the surplus now happily resulting therefrom. Nothing can be simpler, and, it would seem, more equitable, than the working...