Word: hotels
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...idea of visitors coming to the Hall at meal-time is no less absurd than it would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...
...Sophomore Class Supper will take place at the St. James Hotel, Friday evening, March 31. The price of tickets, exclusive of wine, will be four dollars, and may be obtained at the University Bookstore until Friday noon. Gentlemen wishing to be seated together may send their names to 32 Holyoke or 10 Weld...
...more inhabitable and more home-like. It seems a shame, when students put valuable engravings, books, or what not in their rooms, that these should suffer, from carelessness or absolute ignorance, almost certain injury if not ruin. The service is no better than that in a second-class hotel, and traditional negligence is exemplified in the daily maltreatment our rooms receive, The pay given these women is small, being about six cents per room a day; and almost every one would gladly pay more to have decent service. Some entries are fortunate, as Weld North, and others unfortunate, and given...
...regards prizes, there is no reason why unostentatious mementos of victory should not be given to the victors. There is nothing ungentlemanly in receiving them, provided they are given by the colleges, not by hotel proprietors nor hack-drivers...
...think that the feeling is growing stronger that, though our Directors do all that we could expect of them, half a dozen inexperienced young men are not able to manage what is really a large hotel, and that it would be far better for all concerned if the College would take the affair into its own hands. The Corporation and Overseers used last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they...