Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading your recent editorial on meal contracts, I was struck by a very curious fact...
...order to carry out the principles of my religious faith, which is Hedonism, I am obliged to observe certain distary restrictions. For example, my religion requires me to cat filet mignon and devil's food cake with fudge frosting on Friday; to consume cocktails before and after each evening meal, and to abstain entirely from certain uninteresting foods, such as fish...
...Vacant Stare. "The thing to avoid is silence," Cheke has found, and this goes especially for dinners. "On sitting down, Mr. Bull should without delay engage one of his two neighbors in conversation . . . though at some stage of the meal you will find that both your neighbors are deep in conversation but not with you." All that John can do is "make the best of a bad job, be careful not to fall into a vacant stare and take the first opportunity of getting back into the talk." If the British custom of retiring after dinner is not observed...
...present weekly rate is $12.25 for 21 meals. If the optional contract system were now adopted, the Dining Hall management calculates that 55 percent of Dining Hall patrons would still sign up for the full 21 meal contract even though its price would then be $14. Some 35 percent of College diners would sign up for the 14 meal per week contract costing $12, and ten percent would contract to eat only seven Dining Hall meals per week at a cost...
...Administration in charge of Dining Halls has not been asleep to possible improvements in the meal contract system, nor is it, as some would think, hostile to the clubs. The University must consider the effect of a change on the majority of undergraduates, and the optional contract system would mean a considerable increase of meal costs to that majority, without effecting any substantial saving to the minority. College-wide, the interests of the undergraduate are best served by maintaining the 21 meal requirement...