Word: meals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently, though, Harvard students have been taking one aspect of the dining hall system more seriously. As more and more schools convert to and utilize the advantages of variable meal plans, transferable credits and point systems, Harvard's mandatory 21-meal board contract has become a frequent topic of dinner discussion...
...days of magnetic-taped, computer-linked meal cards that identify you and the number of meals you have eaten within seconds, the Harvard institution of house checkers who know their house's residents intimately seem anachronistic...
...addition, students on the meal plan can choose to transfer meal credits to one of the three campus snack bars that operate late into the night. Students that miss one of their meals can obtain a credit of $2.70 and computerized cards help insure that no one cheats the system...
...ceremonial music and dancing, and the meal following it, are all spiritual offerings to Krishna. Because Krishna respects the sanctity of all life, the devotees are vegetarian. They live according to four basic restrictions, which prohibit intoxication, gambling and illicit sex as well as eating meat. Another requirement is chanting the Hare Krishna mantra sixteen times a day. A mantra, a Sanskrit word combining mind and feeling, is a combination of transcendental sounds which are intended to free the chanter's mind from anxiety...
...Division of Civil Rights agrees to the new recommendation, the two eating clubs not admitting women will no longer be able to participate in such Princeton traditions as meal exchanges with other clubs, and intramural athletics...