Word: la
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...FROTHINGHAM,A. L. ENDICOTT,R. E. DODGE.Under this arrangement men of all means can be accommodated. In the "Memorial" division men can board at four dollars a week, as at present. In the a la carte division men can make their board as inexpensive or expensive as they choose, and can take any number of meals per week according to convenience...
...Cambridge for a portion of the day only, and allows one every facility either for high or for low priced board. The only important difference between this and the Corporation's scheme is that one is not given the privilege of combining the table d'hote and a la carte plans for a single meal, or of choosing at will one or the other. Experienced judges in Boston and Cambridge have pronounced such a system thoroughly impracticable, as it allows no way of knowing beforehand how much to provide for the regular boarders, since they may on all occasions change...
sitting; one meal a day or two or three a day; they can order every day in the week, or at irregular intervals. To satisfy men who do not wish to order minutely at each meal, a "regular" meal system is to be combined with the a la carte system, - precisely as such systems are generally combined in gentlemen's private clubs. A member ordering a "regular" meal may also order additional dishes if he pleases to widen his selection, and these extra dishes may be plain or high priced, as the the individual prefers...
...scheme on the ground that it does not meet entirely the needs of the university. Mr. Bolles' letter throws new light on the matter and clears up some of the objections which have been brougtht forward. But the main point as to whether a table d'hote and a la carte system can be worked together successfully, is not, we think, proven by the citation of gentlemen's clubs. there the scale of prices necessary to cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question if at the rates a man could live anywhere near...