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...about six hundred, there were effective checks against the board becoming either too good or too bad. To quote the pamphlet distributed last year: "A secondary reason for keeping the board low is that a marked increase in price would cause a decrease in membership More over, the steward has a direct pecuniary interest in keeping the price down. With board at $4.00 he draws the full amount of his salary; as soon as the price rises above that his salary is proportionately decreased. He is, however, prevented from seeking cheapness at the expense of quality by the fact that...
...would expect, as the association grows in numbers, that the quality of board furnished at the fixed price would very noticeably improve. Each additional year of experience ought to enable the steward to provide still better board and service. Has such improvement been a marked feature of Memorial in the past? On the contrary, there has been of late a marked decrease in quality. Evidence of the quality of board furnished is found in the amount expended by the members for extra orders. The orders thus far this year amount to about seventy-five hundred dollars. A short calculation shows...
Possibly we are expecting too much of the steward. He receives about $5700 for nine months active service per year. During the past few months the writer has ascertained that the usual salary of such a position ranges from two to three thousand dollars. Several hotel men have stated with confidence that the services of a man fully competent to fill a similar position should be secured for three thousand dollars...
Weights-E. M. Schwartzenberg, S. W. Wheeler, G. W. Bouve, I. Bowditch, H. H. Fox, H. H. Hill, T. M. Shaw, R. H. Cox, E. A. Bumpus, P. S. Straus, W. A. Boal, G. H. Steward, D. S. Richards, A. M. Chandler, W. M. Gardner, P. M. Jaffray, H. E. Hildreth, W. L. Baker, A. K. Moe, F. G. Shaw, W. D. Hennen, F. B. Talbot, J. T. Neal...
...other speakers were W. S. Youngman '95, F. R. Steward '96, C. A. Duniway Gr., and E. H. Warren '95. F. Dobyns '98 was unable to be present...