Word: roome
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ROOM in Thayer, and I desire to call the attention of the College to the eminently fitting selection which the Bursar has made in choosing a janitor for that building. This individual was formerly employed as a conductor by the Union Railway Company, and was discharged by them for neglect of duty. Complaints had also been made by passengers and drivers that he was drunk while on duty, although this was not the immediate cause of his discharge...
...consider them as trespassers if they entered the college Yard or buildings in future. An exception is made, however, in the case of any scout working for a college officer. It seems to us that this is an inconsistency on the part of the Bursar. All persons who occupy rooms in the college buildings should be on precisely the same footing in respect to any rule as to whom they are to employ or refrain from employing. We cannot see what difference it need make to the Bursar whether the person is an instructor or not, so long...
...place again to call the attention of the College to the exorbitant price asked for many of the rooms, - a price which not only exceeds that asked by other colleges, but which seems to follow no fixed rules. For instance, one hundred and seventy-five dollars is asked for a room on the ground-floor of Thayer, and also for one on the fourth floor. Considering the best of the rooms are cold, comfortless and undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building...
Dreamt that within the Secretary's room...
...enthusiastic meeting was held last Friday for the purpose of forming a Chess Club. The following officers were elected: President, W. S. Andrews, '80; Vice-President, H. I. Thomsen, '81; Secretary, J. A. C. Wright, '81; Treasurer, H. M. Hubbard, '82. The club intend to procure and furnish a room. A meeting to adopt constitution and transact other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will be able...