Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passes in centuries. "Just as Herod's men in the time of Our Lord used to buy up vegetables here and send them to Rome," said an Irish priest last week, "so the Americans in the oilfields down in Saudi Arabia send lorries today to buy up our food at prices we can't match...
From 10 until 2, the committee will meet behind closed doors with the executive and expansion committees of the Student Council, coming out only long enough to test the central kitchen food in the Kirkland House dining hall. The Council will present the first section of the long-awaited expansion report, drawn up from statistics of about 260 questionnaires, Edward M. Abramson '57, president of the Council said yesterday...
Dunster also seems to provide adequate meals (which are made appetizing by the long walk which precedes them), but food in nothing but a joke in the other houses. The boys who run the grubwagons through the stream tunnels like Leverett best, though. It's at the end of a tremendous straight corridor which starts in the central kitchen under Kirkland. They say the best of them, if they take the first curve at a dead run, can coast all the way to Leverett. Of course the turnoffs at Lowell and Winthrop are festooned with multicolored blotches from power skids...
Since the food is only average, better than the Union but worse than Adams, the reason for these dining table marathons must be the conversation. And the high level of conversation is n turn due both to Eliot's excellent tutorial staff, which includes a high proportion of stimulating and experienced members of the faculty, and to the Admissions Office's favorite platitude, "a wide range of achievements," among the undergraduates themselves...
Under distinctive chandeliers, housemembers eat food supplied from the central kitchen. Some few form cliques, but by the end of the sophomore year, most people mix at the tables no matter what their previous background. Tutors are friendly during meals but do not make a special effort to sit with students. Traditionally, Master Perkins holds High Table every Monday evening. Then about a dozen seniors eat with tutors and other guests in the scholarly ranks on a raised platform at one end of the dining hall...