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Although specific meals sometimes reappear from week to week, Miss Burdakin asserts she never refers to past menus for meal suggestions...
Periodic outbursts of complaints about meal-planning--such as the recent one in which all irate girl appealed directly to President Jordan--are a regular part of the 'Cliffe scene. Miss Burdakin defends her office against these charges, pointing out the difficulties in pleasing so large a community...
...Annex dietician welcomes complaints, and uses an incident of a few years ago when Briggs Hall managed to get apples for desert instead of coffee ice-cream as an example of what results can be achieved. That, however, was the last time Miss Burdakin received a petition...
Budgeting the amount spent on food is done by Miss Burdakin without recourse to formal written accounts. After 34 years at Radcliffe she can accurately gauge what and how much to buy. As for the monetary problems. "They all work out at the end of the year," she says...
When food is left over it usually reappears in a different form at lunch. By some quirk residents of Harnard and Briggs halls like left-overs more than girls in the other dorms do, according to Miss Burdakin. Some of the unused food is eaten by the maids, but they also get special meals of their own, since their food preferences are markedly different from those of the students...