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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criticisms gathered by William L. Bruce '46's investigators in the first weeks of operation centered about lack of variety in menus and "unappetizing" preparation. Undergraduates have alleged that with no boost in costs, meals could be made more appealing by varying salads, dressings, vegetables, and the basic menus themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Hears House Dining Study Monday | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

According to Dining Hall Director A. Margaret Bowers, quoted in the dispatch, Yale men have taken to a new and particularly troublesome kind of table-hopping. After reading in advance menus posted in the ten colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men, Pale from Lack Of Meat, Search for Relief | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Meatless menus may become a reality in the dining halls in one or two days, according to Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02, who said last Tuesday that dining halls would be without meat "within a week unless a drastic reversal of the current situation takes places immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant Sees Meatless Menus in Prospect as Hub Supplies Vanish | 10/1/1946 | See Source »

...June, 1941, when the Government ordered most U.S. nationals home, S.A.S. was educating 500 to 600 American youngsters a year, putting 35 to 50 of them into U.S. colleges. Almost everything about S.A.S. was American, from its sentimental school song ("Fair is the name we love. . .") to its menus (Chinese dishes only twice a week). Native instructors taught Chinese, otherwise the curriculum was straight out of the Little Red Schoolhouse. On S.A.S.'s 15 willow-shaded acres, with its two gyms and the only quarter-mile track in Shanghai, American boys learned to excel at American sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. A. S. | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...ratio of six to one, the student body Friday endorsed the food saving program begun last May as a relief measure for starving Europe, but rejected, three to one, a proposal that would restore desserts to noon menus and substitute a pledge of weekly money contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Stand 6 to 1 for Food Savings; Council Committee Rejects HLU Proposal | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

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