Word: inroad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reduced next year so that there would be only two men to a seat, and that the club tables should be kept precisely as they now are. This would make the hall accommodate about one hundred and forty men less; but it is considered much preferable to any inroad upon the social side of the life in the hall. The other plan is that general tables should be abolished, but, all tables being given to clubs, that each club should have a number of men in excess of the table's seating capacity. By this the hall could accommodate...