Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...able to find out just what is the matter with Memorial or in fact what has been the matter for the past few years. Different directorates have proposed different remedies, new schemes have been tried and generally discarded as unsatisfactory after a few weeks' trial, and the price of board has fluctuated during all these proceedings more violently than any change in the price of materials would warrant. Meanwhile, there has been the ever present interest to be met at the close of each year on the loan given by the Corporation at the time of the renovation...
...before the question of food enters into it at all. There is due the Corporation each year something over $14,000 in interest payments and in payment of the sinking fund. Then there are the heavy expenses of the large and cumbersome plant. It is a problem to serve board to 1200 and more people under these conditions at a price ranging from $4 to $5 a week and it is a reasonable question whether it is wise for a constantly changing directorate of students to have charge of its business rather than men who have had wider experience...
There is one aspect of the situation which is usually overlooked. Supposing the Hall were obliged to shut down: the result would be an immediate rise in the price of board in the other eating places of probably a dollar more per week. Those men who are now paying $5 or $6 a week for board in the Mount Auburn street region would be obliged to pay $6 or $7. This is most undesirable but cannot happen as long as Memorial can be operated...
...vote of the members of Memorial Hall will be taken during all three meals today on the proposition of instituting American board at a fixed price of $5 a week. This plan is offered by the board of directors as a substitute for the present system. The Corporation of the University will assist in the inauguration of the plan by remitting three-fourths of the sinking fund payments for at least two months. The Board of Directors has instructed the steward to serve meals at a price not exceeding $5 a week; and they are confident that with the membership...
...Board of Directors of Memorial Hall, believing that the fish and eggs system is not satisfactory to the members, offers as a substitute for it American board at a fixed price of $5 a week. The Corporation of the University will assist in the inauguration of this plan by remitting three-fourths of the sinking fund payments for at least two months. The Board of Directors has instructed the steward to serve meals at a price not exceeding $5 a week; and are confident that with the membership equal to the average attendance of the past two months the board...