Word: meatlessness
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...response to Carlton M. Smith's letter concerning "meatless meals," we would like to point out that...
...urge the committee to reconsider the manner in which these meatless days are to be instituted. Judging from the response to the Thanksgiving-time fast, which was hardly unanimous, I can not be convinced that meatless days will be so anxiously awaited. During that fast, many persons who had foregone Harvard food appeared shortly afterward in Elsie's and other Square restaurants; they were not really concerned enough about the world food problem to even forego one meal. I believe that at the very most one quarter of the school actually fasted...
...present proposal for meatless days places a referendum on the issue after spring break, but why wait till then? Could not a referendum be held during the of February 3, before meatless days are instituted? What harm could come of a referendum held before the policy is effected? Holding a referendum after the fact is tantamount to a dictatorship for the months prior to that vote. Since CHUL obviously agrees that the matter merits, some sort of referendum, there can be no other explanation for its action than that it hopes undergraduates will be hulled into a state of complacency...
...election in 1976, it would undoubtedly be due to the fact that people had grown accustomed to him as President; were he never imposed upon the people in the first place, he would never have stood a chance of election. I maintain the same is true of meatless days...
...closing, I would just like to point out that we at Harvard pay $500 a semester on food bills alone. This is higher than most universities pay. Should meatless days be instituted, I would urge that the savings accruing from that action be passed back to the students in the form of a credit on next year's tuition for cash, in the case of graduating students). With this rebate, those of us who really do want to eat meat will be able to go elsewhere on meatless days without having to incur outrageously high food bills. Cariton M. Smith...