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… networking and recreational opportunities. Fellows gathered to drink their wine, smoke their pipes, read their newspapers, play cards, and converse in seclusion from their pupils and servants, just like in a gentleman’s club. Lincoln’s … of gentlemen’s clubs was reported in a letter from Horace Walpole to his friend Horace Mann: They have put in the papers a good story made on White’s: a man dropped dead at the door, was carried in; the club immediately made bets … political and military concerns of England and Europe. These great events filtered into the common room via the daily papers now purchased through common room subscriptions, to provide food for conversation and subjects for wagers. If many …
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