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Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
Varied as are the subjects here discussed, ranging from a biography of Holden Chapel to a survey of Barracks on Cambridge Common, and from a tribute to Professor Langdell to sketches of the "Regina Bonarum" and John the Orange Man, these papers find their principle of unity in the delightful mingling of seriousness and humor with which they are treated. Mr. Batchelder is the true antiquarian. He delights in pursuing a word, a custom or a tradition to its origin and tracing its history as far as he can follow it. But, having done this he is not content...
...like seeing themselves in print as "characters." But one may point to Terry, recently lamented, or to the whole tribe and olan of Yard Cops, of whom Mr. Batchelder has made no mention. And though a absolutely trained college no longer calls the head maid "Regina Bonarum," still I feel that if Mr. Batchelder had known the succession of Goodies who have swept in my abodes for these four years, he would not yet despair of Harvard's stock of characters...
...SQUALORE CLAMAVI.Regina bonarum, thou queen of the harem...
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