Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Club is kept open during the whole year, - in term-time, till 12 at night; in vacations, every week-day, till 9. With the Oxford commons-system, it is not found advisable to have a club-kitchen of any great extent. Here, where there is actually no place where one can be sure of getting a good meal, a club-restaurant might be very successful; to attempt the experiment, however, a club would have to be very strong...
...proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen...
...Vassar Miscellany is no longer a college paper, but a monthly magazine. If we can judge from the present number, the change will prove a wise one. The articles are bright and amusing. One young lady writes on the subject, "Has the educated woman a duty towards the kitchen?" and comes to the conclusion that she has. The exchange editress pays her respects to the Courant as follows...
...wish to find any unnecessary fault, I cannot pass by in silence two discomforts with which all who use the Library must be acquainted: the ventilation is often very bad, the atmosphere close and impure; and most of the chairs which are provided are such as adorn an Irish kitchen, but are wholly unsuited to a fine Library. Let us have good air, good chairs, and plenty of them...
...steward was induced by a pecuniary consideration to abdicate before the expiration of his term of office, and he has been succeeded by a man who seems to be much better qualified for the place. Viands like to those that are now prepared in Memorial Hall kitchen were never before seen in Commons, and the tables - the students no longer - fairly groan under them. So sumptuous was the food for the first few days that the President was obliged to curtail the bill-of-fare for sanitary reasons. If the Association continues as it has begun, - and the directors should...