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...Corporation promised that the price of board should not be greater than it had been at the Thayer Club, the only improvements the new club could promise were a beautiful hall instead of an old, tumble-down railroad-depot, neat and trained negro-waiters instead of untidy Irish women, and the prospect of food somewhat better than at the old Commons, owing to the increase in the numbers of the club, and to the skill and experience of a professional steward. In respect of all these the club is certainly far ahead of the old railroad-depot. The waiters...
...early part of November, 1866, Victor Emanuel made his triumphal entry into Venice. The men-of-war in the harbor saluted him with their guns; and the Grand Canal, along which he passed, was draped with the most graceful tapestries. A golden vessel awaited him at the depot; it was carpeted with red velvet, with a golden lion at its prow, and was similar in every respect to the one once used in wedding...
Leaving this noisy tumult, I wedge my way through the boats, which block up the Canal. Gradually the hum of voices subsides. I pass the depot, where a band is playing the national air, and float out upon the lagoon...
...Williams College two Sophomores engaged in a little hazing, and were suspended. The class escorted them to the depot, and they also were suspended. The upshot of the affair was that all returned submissively to their college duties...
...regard to the increase of the number of members, it needs no argument to show that the deserted depot which provided ample accommodation for one hundred students in 1865 affords but scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...