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 wit to add a judicious selection of such attractions to the wretched monotony of their regular table, they might have made Commons the most popular part of the curriculum.

Howbeit, for the first century or so of Harvard’s history the students seem to have endured their gastronomic hardships with a rather surprising amount of resignation. After all, they were very young and very few, — Increase Mather referred to them contemp-