Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After they were handed equipment and $230 worth of uniforms, a tailor took their jackets away, altered them, pressed them neatly and delivered them back with inconceivable politeness and promptness. They were told all about their eight-week training course (to prevent a feeling of strangeness); they were informed that the old "obstacle course" had been renamed the "confidence course" (for the benefit of their morale...
Nothing constructive has been done by the University to prevent further outbreaks. The Student Council recommended Monday that a full-scale investigation of the Dining Hall setup be ordered by competent outside authorities. If the University is unwilling to make changes on its own, this is the only solution...
...Hygiene Building if they believe that their ill health may endanger the food they are handling. Hygiene would then examine them and decide whether they should receive a full day's pay. Yet this system has been in operation for the past five years, and it did not prevent polluted gravy last Thursday night. Nor can we expect it to prevent food poisoning in the future. It is impossible to give each employee a medical checkup every day, and if the honor system has failed before, why should it start working...
Second, the Sanitation Department will retain samples of all food served for 24 hours afterward. But even the authorities who recommended the step admit it cannot prevent poisoning. At the most, saving food can only make the task of finding the offending dish easier...
...said, however, that it was practically impossible to prevent all epidemics and declared that the incidence rate in the Harvard dining halls was much lower than that in any Boston or Cambridge restaurant with which he was acquainted...