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Reverend Henry Dunster succeeded Eaton and built the first college buildings, placing the dining room in Harvard Hall. In spite of his more orderly system, and the largest kitchen in New England, the College had established a reputation for poor food that, according to one historian, "clung to it for more than two centuries...
Toward the end of the eighteen century, students developed the habit of expressing disapproval of the food by throwing it around the room and staging huge class fights. One student was suspended for hitting a professor with a baked potato. If he had missed the professor, it would have been considered part of a normal fight. In 1766, the disapproval took the form of the The Great Butter Rebellion, which was only quelled when the Corporation requested the Royal Governor to read the Overseers' resolutions and enforce them, which fortunately occurred peacefully. Several years later, the Rotton Cabbage Rebellion occurred...
...century, the culinery battles raged so fiercely that the Administration took radical steps to keep the idea of a common eating table. Since most of the warfare took the form of inter-class fights, the Common was transferred to University Hall in 1816, and each class had its own room on the first floor. But this only made things worse, for the restriction turned out to heighten class spirit. Circular holes in the walls soon appeared, and missiles went flying through them. A typical freshman-sophomore fight on a Sunday evening in 1819 was commemorated in the poem, "The Rebelliad...
...evolution of our present setup began innocuously in 1914. Freshman halls were built, Smith, Gore, Standish, and McKinlock, with their own dining system. The dining hall of Gore is now the Winthrop House dining room, and McKinlock's is Leverett House's dining room. Long tables ran the length of these rooms, which were served by waitresses known as the Flying Squadron. These were the first dining halls to be served by a central kitchen...
...debate team of Henry Q. Steiner '51 and A. Werner Pleus '51, arguing the negative side on the same resolution, defeated a Dartmouth team last night in the Eliot Junior Common Room...