Possible Clues:

• Class hosting university meeting
• Government department formerly eccentric and historically square
• Place for assembly
• A place to meet class outside university
• Ground for discussion may come from ref or umpire
• Collection of threads, of a sort
• Internet discussion site
• On-line feature
• Are you in good training, enough to get to the market place?
• Where there could have been a market of the return to spirits