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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the understanding that the food would in some measure correspond with the architectural appearance of the building, and that it would at least be considerably in advance of that furnished by and suitable to the Thayer Club. Some of these persons are disappointed. Let us compare the present fare with the past, and see why they...
...particulars: At the Thayer Club we used to have the best coffee that could be obtained (except in private houses, of course) this side of Boston: its quality was fairly good, it was served hot, in the coffee-pot, at the table, and accompanied by hot milk. Our present coffee is the weakest the writer has ever seen, it is sparingly endowed with calorific properties, and plentifully supplied, in unknown and unvisited regions, with cold milk (perchance once boiled) and, I should say, with copper-filings, and maybe a pinch or two of snuff besides. At the Thayer Club...
...Tabular View change and dinner comes at one instead of two, it is suggested that recitations end at five instead of six. Themes would then come at two, and the first recitation would be at three. We should then have the same interval after dinner as we do at present, and few, we are convinced, think that the time allowed is too short. Themes and Forensics do not fall to the lot of individuals more than once a week, on the average, and the time until three would be amply sufficient for the customary smoke or after-dinner...
Unfortunately, the greater part of the present Sophomore class have failed to perceive this fact. Taking advantage of the anticipation examinations so liberally offered by the Faculty, they rushed to the examination-room, eager to be freed from all presumably incongenial required work. A day or two of "cramming" had been enough to give them a momentary knowledge of their subjects; this knowledge they poured into their books as freely and as thoughtlessly as they would have poured water into a bowl, and their heads were left, as far as political science went, in a condition very like that...
Each club, at present, possesses a six-oar barge, a four-oar, two double sculls, and two single sculls, with an average membership of fifty, - or each club can seat at any one time one third of its members. This number of boats is sufficient when there are no crews in training, and as long as the barges can be used by all members; but when the crews commence going out in the afternoon, then the number of boats is too small. Unless one happens to have rowed before, and has some skill in handling the oar, - unless...