Word: mem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the passing of "Mem" as a student dining-hall is recorded the smashing of another Harvard tradition. But instantaneous with its demise arises a possibility that of converting Memorial Hall into the college auditorium...
...cafeteria used Memorial Hall kitchen. But serving both "Mem" and the "Caff" the kitchen was utilized up to its minimum capacity, at least. Instead of moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups...
...Mem" Hall enticed Christmas Day customers by publishing a menu featuring Blue Point oysters on shell, grouse, chicken, turkey, and Kirsch punch...
...years ago, an agreement was entered into between 26 undergraduate clubs, regulating the election of mem- bers. Under that agreement, October 20, the fourth Monday after the opening of the college year, has been fixed as the day on which club rushing may begin...
That sleepless servant of the University, Mr. Frederick Meade, whose name is attached to all the miscellanea one receives at the beginning of the year relative to term bills and dining halls, has made a step of revolutionary significance in his campaign for More Mouths at Mem. By throwing open the gates of Harvard's gastronomic Elysium to the hoi polloi in petticoats--with the proviso, of course, that they find themselves suitable escorts--Mr. Meade has killed several birds with one stone; in fact, his name should be struck at once from the visiting list of the Audubon Society...