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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GOOD FELLOWSHIP CLUB HOUSE The Good Fellowship Club House A comfortable, two story bungalow, behind the Main Building, is the home of the Good Fellowship Club of Vassar College. Its gray stucco walls, shingled roof and casement windows are half hidden by the trees that screen it from the conservatory on the left and the laundry buildings on the right. A broad porch, furnished with flower boxes, hammocks, and easy chairs, runs along the west and south sides. From the porch French windows open into the library and the large sunny living room, made homelike by an open fireplace, window seats, a piano and a victrola in the alcove. Wide doors lead into the dining room and the library. The plain tinted walls and dark wood trimmings are a pleasant background for mission and wicker furniture. Books and magazines, much thumbed, lie on the tables. Photographs of recent Club House plays are on the little bulletin board opposite the loudly ticking clock under the stairs. Upstairs there are the supervisor's rooms, class rooms, and an infirmary; in the basement, the laundry, with several tubs, and the kitchen with a domestic science equipment. The Club House, in its regular routine of balanced work and play, makes use of all its resources. Lessons are given by college students to club members during the regular college study hours, except when students have classes or the maids have work in the halls. Music is a very popular subject, and keeps the two pianos in constant demand. Other subjects taught are elementary English, advanced English, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, German, French, Latin, typewriting, book-keeping, drawing, writing, botany, and physiology. A cooking class of eight or ten girls meets once a week under a trained instructor from outside the college. With the super..
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