Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell, who expresses deep regret at the passing of Memorial, attributes it to an increasing habit of "eating about" at quick-lunch counters, cafeterias and the like. This is one of those explanations that need explaining. If it is true that civilized man cannot live without dining, it is doubly true that the hours of prandial relaxation have a peculiar value in undergraduate life. Dr. Lowell speaks of Memorial as a place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around...
...Owing to the habit of taking meals irregularly at different places--eating around, as it is called--and the preference for cafeteria over places where men can meet regualarly together, the attendance at the Hall has, since the war, been falling off. Last spring the Comptroller sent a circular to the students asking for their advice and criticism. Few men complained of the food; many wanted smaller tables and to pay by the meal instead of by the week. These changes were made, with the hope that the number of students would increase, but this has not happened. The Hall...
...view it is a pity the Puritan parsons who set up the college at New Haven did not foresee that it was destined to have a theatre of its own and a professor of playwriting and play-acting--and imported, at that, from Harvard. Not even "the abominable habit of shaving on the Sabbath" or "the godless levity of kissing one's wife on the Lord's Day" could inspire such racy and colorful English. But in a measure the deficiency is supplied. Racy and colorful English is copiously emitted at Harvard. There is occasion for philosophy of the kind...
...University coaches who would make the trip, are E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the 1915 football eleven and assistant coach at Cambridge this fall; Coach Knox of the second team: and T. J. Campbell, coach of the Freshman football team. Coach Fisher, who has never been in the habit of attending these mid-winter conferences, will not be able to attend this year either...
...called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome and nourishing, but youth has the outrageous habit of wishing its food to be palatable also, and Freshman Hall food certainly is not palatable...