Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would this be worthwhile in order to secure perhaps twenty-five or thirty votes more? Would you have the Student Council undergo the expense of additional pictures, and would you have the obviously bored Juniors on this Committee be increased in order to have them sit for ten to fourteen more hours...
...House Master--Head Tutor--Tutor--Student resident of Lowell House the Vagabond has been exceedingly busy. And he is justly proud of his record. Not only has his attendance at lectures been regular, but he has had his fourteen meals a week of Freshman Hall food--and enjoyed the comradeship of youth...
...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...
...another column of this issue of the CRIMSON a former Cambridge student outlines what he considers to be the chief difficulties with the proposal to have $8.50 as a flate rate for board which will entitle House members to fourteen meals per, week. Analysis of the possible combinations of meals by which money may be saved or lost by individuals under this system affords an absorbing pastime for a free afternoon but is too complicated for treatment here. At any rate the whole situation boils down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large...
...case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five percent of absentees at the Freshman dormitories or the hypothetical group of House residents who will not eat their entire allotment of fourteen meals...