Word: boards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must be many others who have nearly the same experience as I have had; for I am told by a Director that a great many complaints have been made; but, as he justly said, it is impossible to improve the coffee, for instance, without either increasing the price of board or making a reduction in something else. Last year the Nation had some articles on American manners and customs at table, in which it was pointed out that our meals should be plain and simple, well cooked, and served in such a way that our dinner should be a time...
There are two remedies for this state of things, if it is found that I have represented the case rightly: either to raise the price of board fifty cents or perhaps a dollar a week, or to allow any table to order extra dishes. If the first method were adopted, the expense to each member would not be much, - $20 or $40 a year, - while the Steward would have, I suppose, from about $200 to $500 a week more to spend. If the number of those who could not afford this advance is large, the other plan would be best...
...number of volumes has increased from 50,000 to 155,000. These, together with the libraries of the various schools, make up a library surpassed by only two in America, the one at Washington and the Boston Public. In the last report of the examining committee before the Board of Overseers, it was recommended that the students in history should have greater facilities for reference to and the study of the historical portion of the library, which is known as the most complete in the country. The necessity of the occupying of the alcoves by those in the bibliographical department...
PLEASANT rooms and good board can be obtained by students, or their friends and relatives, desiring a comfortable home, by applying at No. 62 Brattle Street, Cambridge...
...several years there has been a decided decrease at Harvard of this kind of practical joking. Since the present Board of Editors has been connected with the paper, there has been no other wanton and perfectly objectless destruction of College property. The unusual character of the occurrence makes it doubly worth while to give public expression to what may safely be termed public opinion, and to inform the humorous gentlemen who are presumed to have managed this affair, that, in case of detection, they cannot expect the sympathy of the majority of their fellow-students...