TUESDAY. FEBRUARY
1859 Dinner Music:
0/ 1, It Was Only a Shanty...
By LOLLI NEUBARTH
It was a bleak day in 1859 when
69 male students climbed out of a
bobsled in front of Old Main and
were confronted by a partly fin
ished building, without even a
kitchen or dining room ready to
serve them.
So a long low shanty originally
used by the construction crew was
hurriedly converted into a dining
area, with another shanty serving
as a temporary kitchen.
But in spite of efforts to provide
the boys with acceptable dining
facilities, student reaction was
much the same as it is today.
According to the reminiscen
ces of Mrs. Susan Hunter Smith:
"when the college was started
the food served in the dining
soom did not suit them, and the
boys were very much dissatis
fied. They were destructive at
limes. Dr. Pugh (the first presi
dent) was very upset over the
•poons being twisted and the
general disorder."
The school was without a di
rector of dining facilities until
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter came to
eupervise the “culinary” depart
ment. However, the letters of
some early residents were not
very appreciative of Mrs. Hunter’s
efforts.
The only food served, so it
serried to some of them, was
doughy, underbaked bread, mol
asses and rhubarb pies.' Others
found the menu to be “identical
roast beef,” day after day, with
a change in menu merely a matter
of linguistics.
Living quarters in those early
days were also a far cry from
Ihe new dormitories which have
been constructed recently. Both
professors and students lived in
Old Main.
A c c o m modations were some
what primitive. There were no
bathrooms in the building, light
ing was supplied by lard oil lamps
and the boys studied by stearine
candles. It was not until 1887 that
electric light bulbs were installed.
Hot air heat was supplied to
all rooms at first, but by 1872 the
furnaces were worn out and there
were no funds to fix them. For
the next 10 years students paid a
coal fee of $lO and carried coal
from the basement to stoves in
their own rooms if they wanted
heat.
However, the boys did have one
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Future classes found living ac- of Old Main, now solemn with
commodations in the growing University administrative offices,
town around the college or in echoed with the sound of hungry
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