Word: club
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVERAL hare-and-hound clubs have been lately organized, and have met with great success in their runs, so far. A run was held under the auspices of the Union Athletic Club, in Boston, last week, and was well attended. On November 13, a New Jersey club held their first meet of the season at Red Bank, N. J. We understand that a meeting will shortly be held at this University, to consider the advisability of forming a Harvard hare-and-hound club...
...Club is kept open during the whole year, - in term-time, till 12 at night; in vacations, every week-day, till 9. With the Oxford commons-system, it is not found advisable to have a club-kitchen of any great extent. Here, where there is actually no place where one can be sure of getting a good meal, a club-restaurant might be very successful; to attempt the experiment, however, a club would have to be very strong...
...have here, insomuch that it gives to virtually every one who can afford to pay the moderate fee of pound 1 a term (with no initiation fee), advantages offered by none of our institutions, except in part, and then to comparatively few. Having such a large revenue, the club is able to do more than any smaller association could attempt, in the way of enlarging its buildings (which are free from debt), buying books, supplying papers, and the like...
...greatest difficulty in the way of establishing here a club like the Union is, of course, the opposition of existing societies. But such a club might exist without interfering in the least with the two or three old societies that no one wishes to see injured, or with the two smaller ones, of which the counterparts are to be found at Oxford as well. The former are essentially class societies, and, as such, will always be strong; the latter have a limited membership, confined to the most popular men in college; none of them would clash with a club like...
...evening there was a dinner given at Delmonico's to all Harvard men in the city by the Harvard Club of New York...