Great Fire of London general; and more particularly in this business of the fire, laying it all upon him." Pepys was a senior official in the Navy Office by then, and he ascended the Tower of London on Sunday morning to view the fire from a turret. He recorded in his diary that the eastern gale had turned it into a conflagration. It had burned down several churches and, he estimated, 300 houses and reached the riverfront. The houses on London Bridge were burning. He took a boat to inspect the destruction around Pudding Lane at close range and describes a "lamentable" fire, "everybody
Hasty Pudding Club rooms is "The Arena", which is a room with no windows or openings to the outside world. "The Arena" is designated as the club's game room. Conan O'Brien has great disdain for the Hasty Pudding Club. Hasty Pudding Club The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 is a social club for Harvard students. The Hasty Pudding Club was originally established to bring together undergraduates in friendship, conversation, and camaraderie. The society was founded on September 1, 1795, by Horace Binney, who was then 15, by calling together a meeting of 21 juniors in the room of Nymphas Hatch. The club is