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...complaints recently published in the CRIMSON concerning the management of the Harvard Dining Association will benefit the Association in starting an investigation by the board of directors, and they can not hurt the steward if his present position is a just...
...steward is engaged by the president and board of directors. He receives a certain yearly salary and, in addition, a system of "head money," consisting of a bonus of ten cents a week per man, provided the price of board does not exceed $4.00 a week. Thus it is evident that it is to the steward's interest to keep the price of board at exactly $4.00. But it should further be noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will...
From this it will be seen that there is no incentive for the steward to improve the quality of the food, and many well founded complaints have been made in regard to the service, the monotony of the bill of fare, and some of the food. It is practically impossible to do away with the first fault on account of the limited accommodations for serving so many people. The others, however, are wholly inexcusable, and must be the result of carelessness...
...lies in the students' own hands. The trouble has always been that its members have taken Memorial fare too much as a matter of course,- a sort of necessary evil, forgetting that they belong to a co-operative organization which chooses its own directors and which can remove its steward for sufficient reason...
...brief, although the present steward receives a salary which is, to say the least, very liberal, his management of the Hall is characterized by apparent indifference to the welfare of the members, so that the Hall is rapidly losing the popularity which it should have under proper management...