Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After graduation from Georgetown in '50, Sigmund went to England on a Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...Competition is the hope of improvement in the dining halls," insisted Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. He explained, "there's no good reason why the independent kitchens reason why the independent kitchens must always serve better food on the same budget; the Central Kitchen should be able to do just as good...
Single menus, the director argues further, would help to eliminate "the idea that one House has better food than another." How one so intimate with the House dining halls can claim not to recognize the often wide discrepancy between Central and independent kitchen food borders on naivete. His notion--that since one agency makes all the purchases, food quality does not differ from House to House--is blatantly false. There's many a slip twixt sale...
...power the independent kitchens have to plan their own menu benefits not only those who dine in Adams or Dunster, but also other undergraduates. For the central kitchen crew is goaded to make its menus more varied and palatable than they might be otherwise if superior competition did not exist. The proposal for unified menus should not be adopted; it could result in tasteless conformity...
...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...