Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden reversal, President Bunting announced yesterday that six Radcliffe off-campus houses would receive weekly allotments of breakfast food...
Inquires reaching this office incidate considerable mis-understandings about the sequence of events concerning the Radcliffe off-campus breakfast allowance. The directive setting up the plan which I described at the RGA meeting on October 20 was sent out to Radcliffe staff on Friday, October 14. Mary I. Bunting President of Radcliffe
...guerrillas struck at breakfast time, catching the American infantrymen unarmed and off guard. One U.S. sergeant was decapitated at the mess table: his head tumbled neatly into his plate of hash. Others fought back and were later found dead with bloody forks clenched in their fists. Of the 74 officers and men of C Company, 9th U.S. Infantry, only 26 survived. As one of them raged with tears in his eyes: "Damn the infernal Googoos...
Cliffies argued--and with good reason--that it was inconvenient to make a long trek each morning to the Quad; if they had to do that, they said, the richer off-campus residents would simply buy their own breakfast food and the less well off would refuse to move off campus. The College--already in a housing bind even without this threat of insurrection--quickly offered break-fast subsidies...
...degree with the College's position; after all, Radcliffe's operation has always been a shoestring one at best and the budget is likely to show greater deficits in the future, what with wages and up-keep on the rise. Radcliffe really can't afford to subsidize anyone's breakfast...