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...served. "Cost considerations are not the main factor involved in menu planning," the Dining Hall director states, "but they play a very important role in our considerations." Expensive meat cuts at dinner will be counterbalanced by less costly foods served at other meals--the cost of a roast beef dinner may be offset by goulash, chop suey, or some other inexpensive dish...
This Christmas, to honor a batch of native mountain lads, one of Barwick's assistants will show up in Santa Claus costume, wearing a white mop for a beard, and frail Laura Barwick, mother of four Stateside children, will roast a wild boar and some venison, bake a few pies. There will be tango music blasting across the red dirt street from Banmethuot's Chinese cinema, and John will pass around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave...
...suspects that there are many undergraduates who do not know about all this; and who, if they did know, might be something less than enthusiastic about paying to keep the athlete eating roast beef, while the rest of us subsist on pecan fritters or goulash. But even setting aside this very legitimate kind of jealousy, there are good reasons why the training-table system is open to serious question...
Benevolently exiled, because, with the exception of dormitory living, AMP's are supported "in the style to which they are accustomed" during their stay at Harvard. Lobster, steaks and liquor flow in the upper regions of Kresge Hall, far from the pot roast and New England boiled dinners of the first floor serving line. "Of course, we wouldn't make our lowest salesman stay in accomodations the size of these dormitory rooms," a Texas vice-president declared, "But it's clean...
...equipped as any non-Harvardman to describe Cambridge, 38. He teaches at Brooklyn College, is a literary critic, and was a former prison psychologist--a helpful attribute for dealing with the University. Harper's proudly reports that Boroff talked with deans and hundreds of students, and even ate a Roast Beef Special at Elsie...