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...furnishing of the Hall is the very best. Its system is strictly original, as no English College, with but one exception, provides three meals a day. The batterie de cuisine is very complete, including a large French range and all the accessories. Mr. Farmer, who is the steward, has catered three years for the Thayer Club; he receives $3,000 a year for his services. There are two chief cooks and a baker. The bill of fare will be made out in accordance with the vote of the Association...
...this way the price of board would not be increased, and those willing to go to greater expense would be able to indulge themselves. We are sorry to see that the liquor law is as stringent as ever, and think that a moderate amount of beer supplied by the steward at a fixed rate to the tables would go much further towards establishing temperance than old fashion blue-laws...
...probable that the Steward will adopt the suggestion published in the Magenta just after the assignment of rooms...
...immediately commenced, and it is hoped that the hall will be ready for the club at the beginning of the next academic year. As has been stated before, the tables in the new hall will seat twelve, and to each table one waiter will be given. A professional steward will be hired by the Corporation at a salary of $1,500 a year. In order to keep the price of board at the lowest, in addition the steward will be given 10 cents for each man if the price is $4; if $4.10, he will receive but 9 cents...
BEFORE me, neatly pasted in the book which contains the printed and written evidence of the pleasures and pains of three years' college life, there, between a summons and a play-bill, lies the slip of paper whereon the Steward informs me that I may retain my old room for yet another year. The wording of this, to me, important document is formal to the last degree. The gentleman who gave it me, too, showed no appreciation of the importance of the transaction, but was gazing over my shoulder the while at a couple of Freshmen laden with checks...