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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first head of Harvard College was fired largely because he served poor food. Around 1800 food battles became so violent that the University had to abandon the idea of a common table. In 1926 Dean C. N. Greenough said he would welcome suggestions on how to solve the "food problem." Last year Dean Bender asked the Student Council to conduct a poll on what students thought of the food. Throughout this 300 year history of food problems many changes in the dining system occurred, always whenever protests became widespread and proved to be well founded...
Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which...
Once a month for the past 39 years a group of business and professional men in Harvard Square have met to discuss common problems and to have a good time...
...investigation is necessitated, Kronauer explained, by the increased graduate school facilities which will come with completion of the Graduate Center, now rising at Jarvis Court. The Council is surveying parietal rules in relation to dining halls, common rooms, and dormitories...
...host of comments accompanied answers to all questions, the most common complaints that the Radcliffe Library does not have enough books to go round in many courses, particularly in English, and that there is no reason Lamont cannot let Radcliffe...