Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly unfortunate that this restriction on freedom works more hardship upon some men financially less comfortable than others. This is not only out of line with the Harvard custom which deprecates distinction by wealth, but is wholly antagonistic to the spirit of democracy which is presumed to be the essence of the House Plan...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...
...food in the houses was better then any other food in Cambridge, other things being equal, men would eat there of their own volition. If the food were not so good, or if other conditions such as convenience of location were not equal, it is entirely wrong that force should be exerted to get them to eat there. It would seem to be advisable to make the food as good as it is possible to do so and let the success of the project depend upon the excellence of the board without resort to financial persuasion...
...charge per week. While they are still in the infant industry class protection in the form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining...
With the announcement today the House Plan is for the first time put on a definite basis. Questions for a long time unformulated and floating about in the minds of Harvard men are for the first time answered. Some idea of the physical form which the Houses will take for the first time come to the public notice in the pictures released from University Hall...