Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those are the advantages of a competition a candidate is apt to write home about to explain away possible grade shrinkage While they are perfectly true they do not tell the story. For such prosate benefits make no mention of the thrill of appearing in print, of the satisfaction of playing a humble part in the molding of undergraduate opinion, and of the lasting pleasure of companionship while working for a common...
...most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively...
...that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money an undergraduate can afford to throw away...
...Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their colleges at a comparatively early hour each night...
...Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five...