Word: foxcrofts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...waiting list of the Foxcroft club have been admitted to membership...
...FOXCROFT CLUB.- There will be a meeting of the directors this evening at 7.30, at the club house...
Before another college year begins, the authorities will have to do something to provide more boarding accommodations for the students than now exist. The present accommodations are entirely inadequate. Even before college opened this year there was a waiting list at Memorial Hall of over three hundred men, the Foxcroft club was obliged to increase its membership to one hundred and fifty, and the boarding houses about town were well filled, even at high prices. There is now no boarding place in Cambridge where men can be suitably provided for at a low rate, which is not filled to overflowing...
...previous year. The departments of Physics, Chemistry and Botany were particularly successful. The School of Physical Culture was well attended. The schools drew students from all parts of the country, a fact of moment since it provides a means of making various sections familiar with Harvard. The Foxcroft Club was open during the summer to all those who were connected with the University, both men and women...
There is hardly an institution at Harvard which is so little understood and so beneficial as the Foxcroft Club. The club is essentially a dining club. Last year it became apparent to a few of the officers of the college that something must be done to accommodate the constantly increasing number of men who do not live in the immediate vicinity of the college but who require some quiet room in which to study during the day, and some place in which to get inexpensive lunches. The corporation was induced to buy the house at the corner of Oxford...