"It's pretty easy to come to the Square on Thursday night because Bentley has a bus running from Bentley to Harvard," says Anthony M. Nibert, a Bentley senior.
But Harvard students or not, bar owners say crowds in the Square on Thursdays rival the size of Friday and Saturday night hordes.
"The size of the crowd is about the same as Friday," says Erik R. Tumasz, a bartender at the Spaghetti Club. "We hold about 200 and generally get about 500 to 600 over the course of the night."
Christopher Campana, head of security at the House of Blues, says here, too, Thursday nights are better for customers than weekends.
"People here seem to have a better time on Thursdays because there's more room to dance," Campana says. "By the end we'll have just as many people, but they won't come in as fast.
Prices are lower, crowds are smaller, and the fact that the band was billed on Thursday instead of Friday doesn't mean a thing. We had Dr. John come on November 24, so you can see that the bands are just as good."