Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union opened in 1901 as a club for all Harvard men. It charged a membership fee of $10 per year and was run like a restaurant, complete with waitresses. In 1923, Memorial Hall closed because of lack of patronage. Students once again turned to club and cafeteria eating...
Agitation for University dining halls for upperclassmen was renewed in 1926, but this time students sought friendly, convivial halls instead of the huge expanse of Memorial Hall. The Union offered club tables on its second floor to any group of twelve at $9 per week for 17 meals. A Crimson editorial, entitled "And Again, Food!" applauded this idea and wanted "systemized eating to take the place of cafeteria philandering." The Union's suggestion was followed up with a concerted drive to erect a new dining hall on Mt. Auburn Street, which failed when an insufficient number of students reported that...
...important because fraternities themselves are important. There are more than 2,750 Greek-letter chapters in the United States, and at many schools they house and feed most of the student body. They frequently run the social and extra-curricular life of those schools. Educational authorities estimate that 90 per cent of these fraternities have discriminatory clauses in their charters. Most specify "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race;" some southern groups go even further, and admit only White Protestants." Last week, the fraternities voted that chapters should "take steps" to climinate such admission bars...
...fraternity is much like an iceberg--only about ten per cent of it shows. There are more than a million fraternity brothers in the U. S.; about 100,000 of them are undergraduates. The rest of the fraternity men comprise graduate boards, which have consistently fought lifting bias rules. And the graduate boards pay most of the bills...
...double-spaced page typed by a male student pays 20 cents; typed by a female student, 15 cents. If a Harvard man types a carbon copy, he gets 5 cents per page; the Radcliffe girls get 2 cents per page...