Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presides over the serving area, Death must preside over the dining area. (That's his life-size picture looming down on you from the wall, dressed in black robes and wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables...
...said the group made it all the way to Adams, only to hear that the dining hall checker was turning the throng away...
...kind of an embarrassment because our friends can't eat here because they feel that they'll be harassed by the checker," said Scott M. Rowen '02 of Adams House...
...despite the strict enforcement, Dunster House resident Brent D. Zettel '01 said he was able to slip past the checker desk and enjoy a Sunday brunch...
...challenged by a checker for not having an Adams sticker, but he admits paying little heed...