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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What are the eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must...
...recent experience at Emmanuel bears examining. Two years ago, it was decided to serve luncheon in hall, the undergraduates not being required to attend. The experiment has been a great success. Not only have the luncheons been well patronized, but the students, who are forever complaining about the food served at dinner, are loud in their praise of the quality of the luncheons. The food is, I think any impartial observer would agree, just as bad--or good--at luncheon as it is at dinner. But one meal is optional and the other is required: one is good...
Oldsters were amused last week at a Manhattan auction of Currier & Ives prints, which for 70 years have hung mostly unobserved in the parlors and kitchens of U. S. homesteads. Collectors and dealers lounging in the carpeted grand auction Hall of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, concealed their excitement, made their bids. A Tight Fix, showing a bear at bay, brought $1,600. It took $1,450 to buy Home to Thanksgiving. A series of six prints revealing The Life oj a Fireman sold at its record price-$760 Youngsters, wondering at the homely titles and big price, wanted...
...Parthenon--Friezes", Professor Chase, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...
...Nature of International Relations", Professor Holcombe, New Lecture Hall...