Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present arrangement of the hours for meals, especially at this season, is least suited to accommodate the majority. So long as we recognize a Tabular View, we shall have but two unoccupied hours throughout the day, and these hours, from two to four o'clock, though the best for out-door exercise, are still quite unavailable while we dine at one, for it must be injurious to pull an oar or swing a bat so soon after eating. To exercise later is to be on the river or at Jarvis at sunset, and this in October is far from healthy...
...tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river in an eight or a four; but if a man in a scratch eight shows any approach to good form, rescue him, at once, and put him to tubbing. One great...
...furnishing of the Hall is the very best. Its system is strictly original, as no English College, with but one exception, provides three meals a day. The batterie de cuisine is very complete, including a large French range and all the accessories. Mr. Farmer, who is the steward, has catered three years for the Thayer Club; he receives $3,000 a year for his services. There are two chief cooks and a baker. The bill of fare will be made out in accordance with the vote of the Association...
...study was unremitting on the part of the students, and the memory of Louis Agassiz seemed to keep alive an interest among them, with the desire of working as he would have wished. The Laboratory was hung with sentences from his lips and his writings; not a day passed when his name was not mentioned; and often a student of last year could be heard telling a new-comer of some act of kindness and thoughtfulness on the part of the great teacher...
Perhaps the greatest inconvenience to the visitor was the trouble of conveyance to and from the lake; but even this was not serious after the first day, when teams of all descriptions, from the stately landau to the sluggish lumber-cart, were impressed into the service, drawn by the report of rich plunder, from the country within a radius of fifty miles. The price for transportation to the lake immediately dropped from five dollars to fifty cents. We learn on good authority that, should Saratoga be fixed upon for the next regatta, a long-contemplated plan for quick and cheap...