Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system of special orders now in use at Memorial tends to impair the quality of the fare. It is a positive obstacle to proper efficiency, both in the hall and in the kitchen, in the preparation and serving of the food. There are eighty different articles on the list which have to be cooked to order, and there are often several hundred extra orders called for in a day. The three general cooks have to prepare all this in addition to their regular work, and to do so, must neglect something which ought to be done. The employees themselves recognize...
...palatable and good, while they are usually unfit to eat. The actual cooking for 850 people, including the servants, is done by five men and one woman. This number is entirely too small, and is much less proportionately, than that at West Point. To bring things up to a proper standard three men cooks should be added at a cost of $140 per month. This expense seems great but it can easily be met in any of three ways, either by adding four cents to the weekly board, by dropping one of the four vegetables served daily, or by having...
...undergone. The gymnasium authorities should look into this matter and find out the cause of all this trouble and annoyance. The gymnasium is becoming more popular than ever but unless the above evil is remedied one of the strongest objections to its use will be the lack of proper bathing facilities. By all means, let us not be deprived of them...
...others. The man who is liberally educated should possess more varied pleasures, a sounder judgment, more sympathy with his fellow-beings, a higher ideal of life and of its duties, than are held by other men. No education which is simply intellectual can give all these, but a proper intellectual education may assist a young man in acquiring them...
...Political Economy Library in U. 14 will hereafter really be kept open until 10 o'clock, as the proper orders have at last been given from the office...