Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush on the nights of House dinners is eliminated and some method produced to let the uninvited majority eat at its pleasure, it appears improbable that the idea of the House dinner will be adopted...
...further complaints about House dinners can be made if persons not formally invited are permitted to eat at the regular time, i.e. between five thirty and seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...
...obvious temporary expedient would be to let students eat in the Houses in which they were denied residence. By restricting this privilege to, say ten meals a week, and by regulating the hours of eating so as to take up the slack period, the system would almost certainly be feasible...
...page pamphlet, complaining of the bad fare from which the "outhousers" suffered, proposed "that the outhousers may, regulating the supply so as to keep up the price, be offered for sale to the persons of quality and fortune throughout the College; always taking care that they eat plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table...
...college by means of monetary subscriptions is short-sighted and unintelligent. I believe that the money to be raised should be used to help a mass of refugees to gain security in term of daily needs. To find means of getting out of Germany, to find a place to eat and sleep are their primary requisites. Higher education is at present a luxury for them...