Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LAMPOON.- There will be a meeting of the entire board in the Sanctum, Wednesday evening, February 17, at 7.30 sharp. Election of officers for the ensuing year...
...early days of the association, when the membership was about six hundred, there were effective checks against the board becoming either too good or too bad. To quote the pamphlet distributed last year: "A secondary reason for keeping the board low is that a marked increase in price would cause a decrease in membership More over, the steward has a direct pecuniary interest in keeping the price down. With board at $4.00 he draws the full amount of his salary; as soon as the price rises above that his salary is proportionately decreased. He is, however, prevented from seeking cheapness...
EXCELLENT Board at Peabody Club, 126 Mt. Auburn street. Terms: Club tables, $6.50; general tables...
...association now numbers 1120 and has a waiting list of several hundred, which evidently presents fluctuations in membership on account of changes in the quality of board furnished. There is, therefore, no longer any check against poor board. This is exactly the point of the present protest...
...would expect, as the association grows in numbers, that the quality of board furnished at the fixed price would very noticeably improve. Each additional year of experience ought to enable the steward to provide still better board and service. Has such improvement been a marked feature of Memorial in the past? On the contrary, there has been of late a marked decrease in quality. Evidence of the quality of board furnished is found in the amount expended by the members for extra orders. The orders thus far this year amount to about seventy-five hundred dollars. A short calculation shows...