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...problems confronting any organization trying to develop a textbook service for undergraduates are obvious enough. The first question is one of space; perhaps realistic consideration of such a service must await the establishment of a student union, with recreation, study and snack facilities as well. Then too, certain texts are made obsolete by new editions or changing course needs; whoever undertakes the project must do some thoughtful consulting with professors in the heavily-populated lower level courses, and must know something about the second-hand book trade...
Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school in 1923, young Vernon Stouffer decided to invest his talents in a highly unlikely place-his mother's kitchen. Her Dutch apple pies had made the family's snack bar the most popular one in Cleveland. "The possibility of a chain of restaurants serving food with fresh homelike flavor appealed to me," remembers Stouffer (rhymes with show...
...union need not be a grand or expensive place. It would be nice to have bowling alleys, modern lounges and other refinements that grace unions at other campuses, but these are not essential. An attractive snack bar and coffee room, some rooms for study, a few common rooms--perhaps with television, a browsing shelf, and a games area--would be a good nucleus. A book exchange, helpful to many, could also operate in the union...
...serve its purpose, the union must be centrally located. The Freshman Union building while not perfect, is an attractive possibility. The second and third floors have sufficient space, and with some renovation they could be made quite pleasaant. Snack bar profits could pay for part of the renovation, but the University could appropriately meet most of the expenses with money from the Fund for Harvard College...
...proposal came from Joseph M. Russin '64, who suggested that the second floor of the Freshman Union might be converted to provide recreation facilities for all undergraduates from Harvard and Radcliffe. He proposed that a snack bar, "perhaps administered by HSA," be established as the foundation of a student union "such as other colleges have...