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...ringing the college bell and waiting on table in the commons, Zachariah Bridgen, who entered Harvard College in 1657 at the age of 14, was given the sum of about $4 by the steward's office, on December 31, 1654, prior to his entrance as a student. This is the first record of an American student who earned part of his college expenses...
...steward's books further reveal that Bridgen had charges against him for: "commones and sizinges," which was board together with food and drink ordered from the buttery: "tuition"; 'study-rente and beed," or room and bed "for and candell"; wood; and for bringing corn from Charlestown." On he other side of the ledgers, Bridgen vas credited with such things as "sillier," "wheatt," "malte," "Indian" or born and "a bush of parsnips...
...this new plan a radical change in the diet occured. Previously breakfast had consisted of bread and beer, supper, milk instead of beer; and a pound of meat for each man to make a satisfying dinner. The University Comptrollers however, went in strongly for lamb, just as our present stewards have recently done well by the strawberry trade, and the students quickly tired of the new regime. They crowded around the Steward's rooms and set up loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality...
After the dinner there will be an informal reception in the downstairs Common Room followed by the dance in the main room at 8.30 o'clock. Music will be provided by an eight piece orchestra from Boston, which has been secured for the occasion by W. A. Heaman, Steward of the Union. Dancing will last until 11 o'clock. In previous years large numbers have attended and the dance has been uniformly successful because of the fact that women constitute about 43 per cent of the enrollment. The Crimson plans tentatively to give a dance in the latter part...
...coldest, gloomiest Yale v. Harvard regatta on record, one of the most exciting since the race of 1914. when the Harvard steward in the judges' boat voted that Yale had won because he mistakenly expected his Yale confrere to return the courtesy. William Meikleham, Columbia stroke in 1886, who usually referees the race, this year decided he was too old. Harvard suggested a Yale man to replace him, Julian Wheeler Curtiss, 75. president of A. G. Spalding & Bros., who usually runs the Poughkeepsie Regatta...