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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday night very pleased with himself for having come within thirty cents of breaking even, for be staying home nights he has been able to increase the total value of his meals to $8.20. Evidently he is on the right track so he decides to do this one better and stay home Saturday night too. This is rather a bore because one of his less economical friends plans to celebrate the completion of the week's work by dining in town, but he is going to see this thing through to the finish...
...peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week in the House...
...One phase of the Harvard House Plan comes as something of a shock to one who, as a Harvard undergraduate, was used to being allowed the large amount of independence for which Harvard is distinguished and who also, as a Cambridge undergraduate, felt the annoyance of the rules and restrictions characteristic of the English universities...
...One recent experience at Emmanuel bears examining. Two years ago, it was decided to serve luncheon in hall, the undergraduates not being required to attend. The experiment has been a great success. Not only have the luncheons been well patronized, but the students, who are forever complaining about the food served at dinner, are loud in their praise of the quality of the luncheons. The food is, I think any impartial observer would agree, just as bad--or good--at luncheon as it is at dinner. But one meal is optional and the other is required: one is good, one...
...expected to take a reasonable number of meals there. Of course this will not be always possible, for each House cannot contain tutors on every subject. But it will be true in a large number of cases; and the tutors connected with the House will be one of the ties that bind the community there together into an academic unity. Something will also be gained by attaching to each House a few professors who do not tutor, but will give it their support and be occasionally present at its table...