Word: moneys
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...under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form an opposing argument which they cannot too strongly resist...
...charge of $8.50 for 14 meals a week is to be imposed upon the students in the new Houses. That means 60 cents a meal. Few undergraduates eat breakfasts costing 60 cents. Hence, as pointed out elsewhere in this paper, for all those students who cannot afford to waste money freely the charge amounts to a requirement that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money...
...eating arrangements in those English universities which bulk so large in every discussion of the House Plan? Take Emmanuel College, Cambridge, John Harvard's own college. There a charge is imposed for five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their...
...requirement is not, of course, a rule saying "you shall eat 14 meals here each week." But it is a bill for $8.50 which virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here." That is a requirement inconsistent with Harvard tradition and with English practice. It is a rule which, for the welfare of the House plan and the Harvard undergraduates, should be vastly modified. Incipient protests at Harvard and successful precedents at Cambridge both point to the importance and value of changing the announced plans, and leaving the undergraduates...
...this issue of the CRIMSON a former Cambridge student outlines what he considers to be the chief difficulties with the proposal to have $8.50 as a flate rate for board which will entitle House members to fourteen meals per, week. Analysis of the possible combinations of meals by which money may be saved or lost by individuals under this system affords an absorbing pastime for a free afternoon but is too complicated for treatment here. At any rate the whole situation boils down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large majority of their...