Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty years ago the problem before the University was not to gather the students together in one place for sociably gregarious feeding, but rather to keep them so assembled. All undergraduates were then required to eat in Commons, where the food was of nebulous origin and doubtful consistency. "Eating out" was forbidden by ordinance of the University, who had an eye to the pecuniary advantage to be obtained from running its own dining-rooms, and to satisfy their cravings for tasty morsels, the students took to bootlegging dainties of all sorts into their rooms...
...among them the tale of a student who was convicted of smuggling on the indisputable evidence of goose and turkey feathers in his room, to show the wicked practices of the hungry undergraduate. The scarcity of "turkies" on the forces of Cambridge precludes any such solution of the food problem...
...college education as it is at present conducted by different institutions throughout the country. Through the speakers and through committee meetings on specific questions relating to the proposition under discussion, the Congress will afford an opportunity for a thorough examination and a careful analysis of all angles of the problem...
...Harvard is puzzled by the commissary problem," Mr. Roth said to a CRIMSON reporter, "the industrial division of Waldorf Incorporated will gladly offer the services of one of its representatives to study the situation and offer a solution. I do not mean that we intend to enter the CRIMSON contest but that we would like to have on expert on feeding problems offer his opinion...
...serve millions of meals a year, have our own commissary, buy our own supplies, and are thoroughly familiar with eating problems. We have been able to help colleges before with suggestions in regard to dining halls and would like to enter the lists against the Harvard problem. But we don't write essays...