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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said, of the imposing appearance, the fine proportions, handsome interior decorations, and excellent appointments of the Memorial Dining-Hall. Many persons, residents of Cambridge and Boston and strangers from other towns, come every day to visit the Hall, and they doubtless go away well satisfied with what they have seen, and convinced of the truthfulness of the reports concerning it. The beauty of the Hall, moreover, is far from being unappreciated by those who are privileged to take their meals there, and all members of the College, past and present, are naturally proud of this new acquisition of their Alma...
...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 we had every day good rolls with a crisp...
ABOUT a year ago the eye of Misery, which is ever prone to discern a companion in her woe, might have seen a dejected Sophomore slowly wending his way, with his Lares and Penates heaped on an unpitying cart, to the home of his ancestors...
They have a French opera of considerable merit of its kind. Being of a mathematical turn of mind, I established the proportion, Old Hundred : Soldene Troupe : Soldene Troupe : The Rio Opera Bouffe. This must be seen to be believed, but I have seen...
...subject of discourse is imperceptible. His conversation at its best would never be selected as a model of grammatical purity or refined elegance. The name of every by-way in his neighborhood is to him a household word; but he is a comparative stranger to the highways, and when seen there, is usually observed to appear ill at ease...