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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday the Harvard Dining Association started its new system for the benefit of transient as well as regular members. Already the University is commencing to rally to the support of the experiment, for the plan promises to furnish cheaper and better board than ever before. We fully expect that the special provisions will appeal to a new class of men, who, if they do not neglect the opportunities offered, will by their support enable the association to run on a still more economical basis. Regular members, also, should not forget that the $4 a week guarantee is only a temporary...
...Corporation has given this guarantee at the request of the directors of the Dining Association as the first step toward some permanent arrangement by which cheaper board may be secured at the Hall. Three reforms are contemplated as a means to this end. A reduction in the fixed charges, such as the cost of service, will be made. Within the past week the pay-roll of the Hall has been cut down by $590 a month. The variety of food offered will be curtailed, the articles on the menus being less in number, but changed daily instead of offered...
...furnish no relief because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has been tried for the past 15 years and has invariably failed. Municipal ownership is the only remaining alternative, and the experience of European municipalities and our own political wisdom argue for it. It will bring about cheaper and better service for the people, because the system will be operated for the public interest. It will be profitable to the city, because the street railway system is a paying investment. It will improve the city government by removing the chief cause of political corruption and by placing the city...
...inadequate, and unnecessarily so. The companies are deriving an extortionate profit, and they constitute a prolific source of political corruption. We can expect no relief from competition because there is no chance for competition. Regulation has invariably proved an inadequate remedy. Municipal ownership will mean a better and a cheaper service for the people because the system will be operated in the public interest. It will mean a paying investment to the city because the street railways are tremendously profitable. It will diminish political corruption by removing the chief cause of corruption, and the city will be in a better...
Trial of the plan at Harvard has been delayed until the present time, in order to make it possible to offer new courses which should be cheaper, of more convenient length, and better calculated to appeal to Harvard men than any already existing...