Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather to pay for--a less objectionable way of attaining the same practical result--a certain number of meals in the dining-room every week. Each of them will have his own bedroom...
...would eat there of their own volition. If the food were not so good, or if other conditions such as convenience of location were not equal, it is entirely wrong that force should be exerted to get them to eat there. It would seem to be advisable to make the food as good as it is possible to do so and let the success of the project depend upon the excellence of the board without resort to financial persuasion...
...form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those...
Further discussion of the advisability of the plan itself is admittedly futile and out of place. It remains only to settle the details of the Plan's operation in such a way as to make the Plan as acceptable as possible to the largest number of people. The point cannot be too strongly emphasized that virtually all the present plans for the operation of the two houses are still in a fluid state. Those in charge are anxious that this flexibility be maintained as long as possible after the Houses are in operation and fully intend to make modifications...
...opinion on these facts. It is hoped that the student body at large will feel sufficiently interested in the subject to bring forth further comment suitable for running in the usual Mail column. Effort will be made to provide for the printing of all those communications which may make any valuable contribution to the discussion...