Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively...
...even more inconvenienced by having to eat in the Square for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday breakfast, but he is a true scientist and 10, on Saturday night he is rewarded, for his six lunches, six dinners and two breakfasts add up to $9.00. At last he has beaten the game...
...content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just...
...charge of $8.50 for 14 meals a week is to be imposed upon the students in the new Houses. That means 60 cents a meal. Few undergraduates eat breakfasts costing 60 cents. Hence, as pointed out elsewhere in this paper, for all those students who cannot afford to waste money freely the charge amounts to a requirement that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money...
...more I mull about the matter the greater becomes my puzzlement that Princeton should have taken the decisive step in the break with Harvard. No college ever eat prettier than the Tigers. Year after year they met the Crimson team after a disappointing season and always they came to life to perform prodigies and win a brilliant victory...