Word: thayers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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MEMBERS of the Thayer Club surmise that after the departure of the snow they will be regaled with a great deal of spinach...
...reason. It is thought that upper-class men do not have the advantage over lower-class men, in the assignment of rooms, which is rightly theirs. It would certainly seem no more than just that a Junior, for example, should, after occupying a room on the lower floor of Thayer for three years, have the privilege of at last securing a more desirable position in the college buildings. But under the present regulations he is excluded from any such privilege, and must take his chances in the general lottery. Even the plan adopted by a few last year of getting...
...questions arising as to the management and condition of the Thayer Club are often spoken and written of by students in a humorous or flippant vein. We propose to consider these questions rather more seriously, for we know them to be of interest and importance to a large body of undergraduates...
...first place, a few words of a statistical nature. The Thayer Club was founded in 1865 in accordance with the terms of a gift of money from Nathaniel Thayer, Esq. The object held in view by that liberal gentleman was to afford to poor students the means of obtaining good, substantial board at cost price. The club was organized under the form of an independent body, but this independence is now merely nominal, as the Faculty have an absolute veto on any vote passed by the association. The number of students connected with the Club has gradually increased, until...
...will deny that the gift of Mr. Thayer was generous and judicious, that there should be in Cambridge an institution where poor students can obtain good food at small price. Acknowledging these facts, we must at the same time set forth what we regard to be the two serious faults of the Club. One arises from the nature of its constitution; the other from the natural increase in the number of members, which cannot be helped, and from the neglect of the Faculty, which could be helped...