Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long's statement answered the question, repeatedly asked by graduate students, especially at the Law School, as to why University officials didn't juggle meal rates so as to elude the Commonwealth's five percent old age tax on restaurant food. The tax applies only to meals of one dollar or over...
...commissioner said he had met with an attorney representing the University early this year to discuss Harvard's meal taxation status...
...made the explanation about the meal price hike in an hour speech to one of his classes and in a statement to the Law School Record...
...statement followed complaints from a substantial number of graduate students that the new meal prices unduly burdened transient diners. Students felt that breakfast and lunch prices should be raised more to avoid the tax on a dollar dinner...
Hall pointed out that schemes to avoid the tax by keeping dinner at 95 cents and increasing lunch five cents more instead, would not work since the transient lunch trade would be reduced. The University, he added, must charge more for supper to break even on that meal...