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...Club's top priority is to integrate thefaculty; making money is an afterthought. You see,at The Faculty Club, quality precedes profit."When I was hired in 1958," Coulson says, "theadministration wondered how I would be willing towork in an atmosphere when I'm told not to make aprofit," (Ed: In his 25-year tenure, he managedjust fine...
Some 15-old years ago, the administrationconsidered broadening that Club's constituency,but philosophical and logistical constraintsprevented it. "There was some talk... that theclub would be open to all students," says Coulson."But that would undermine the whole mission. Ibelieve the Club ought to be a club." Zeckhauseradds, "I don't think we can accommodate any morepeople. We just couldn't take any more, and if wedid, we'd be displacing our primary audience...
...many ways, The Faculty Club is lessstately and more raucous than outsiders mightexpect. Take, for example, a sordid tale from itsrecent past. "We had an Era of Horse Steak,beginning in the 1940s, which is always infamous,"Coulson says. During World War II, standard redmeats--beef, pork, veal, lamb, etc.--became hardto come by, and the Club increasingly had to relyon alternative ingredients...
When the war ended, and with it the rationing,horse meat was removed from the menu. "Theeconomists and others had enjoyed the good,inexpensive horse meat," Coulson says. "And theyasked, 'Where's our horse meat, where's our horsemeat?' So the Club put it back on the menu. It wasthere when I arrived in 1958. A lot of peopleenjoyed it; it's better than venison, I would saythat...
...Coulson recounts another ignominious chapter inthe horse meat saga. Purveyors of horse meatdelivered shipments a few times a year, but their18-wheelers were too bulky to negotiate thestreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and saystreets of Cambridge. "So they'd call me and say'We're up at the packing house in Lynn.' So I'd goup in my car and watch this big trailer truckunloading all this horse meat--big barrels ofstuff rolling down the conveyor belt--and a coupleof small boxes marked 'Faculty Club...