ngs, viz. Brokens doors and
windows, $.75, making in all the sum of $6.62-1/2. Last term $4.60.
So you see it is all a humbug for the catalogue to say the charges
will range from $5.00 to $7.50 per year, as it will not be less
than $15.00 to each student, or $30.00 to each room and if a
student rooms alone his charges will be $21.00 per year!

As for his boarding place:

I changed or rather left Mrs. Andrews and went ... to Professor Ten
Brook's. I like it so well at the Prof's that I have remained there
since. Lest you should be unwilling, or perhaps fearful for my
health, I would say that the Prof. has kindly offered me his horse
to use every morning or as much as I please. A ride on horseback is
exceeding good exercise. Especially when a horse is as hard to
ride as the Prof's is wont to be. Do you recollect a sorrel steed
you sold to Mr. Dan Stowell? Prof's horse's movements are just
about as _convenient_ as that one's were. My objection to boarding
at a public boarding house, is, that no regard is paid to the rules
of politeness and _good_ manners. Every one for himself, is the
motto. Not so in a private family. Mrs. Ten Brook is a very
accomplished lady and the Prof. is not much behind her in that
respect. They set a _good_ table, not a very _rich_ one, but rather
a plain one. In the morning, Buckwheat pancakes and maple molasses,
besides potatoes and sausage. At noon, 'steak,' sometimes fish. The
professor charges 12 shillings for board. I like _him_ of all the
Prof's, the best.

What would a student nowadays think of a menu like that for $1.50 a
week?

The first boarding club was established in 1860 in the house, not far
from the ancient "Cat-Hole," of one Mrs. O'Toole, "a pretty good
all-round cook, whose forte was apple dumplings" served daily. The
steward was Charles Kendall Adams, '61, while other members were Walter
W. Perry and Byron M. Cutcheon of the class of 1861 and Martin L. D'Ooge
of the class of 1862.

Recreation was not a part of the earlier curriculum and athletics were
unknown under that name, though feats of strength, jumping, lifting
dumb-bells, the heavier the better, and foot-races, were common. Perhaps
that woodyard and the favorite games of one-old-cat and wicket, a
modification of cricket, were sufficient substitutes, occasionally
varied by a fishing trip on the Huron or