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...kind. The results of his investigations as partially given in our article of yesterday, show that he approached the matter in detail, with the earnest purpose of suggesting real and practical improvements. The proposition that the college ought to employ a salaried official to control the actions of the steward and to keep an actual watch on the nature of the food served, in place of continuing the absolute farce of a student board of directors, meets with our heartiest approval. That this student board is of necessity a farce, no one will fail to recognize who knows anything...
...make sure that the quality of the food is kept up to the standard there ought to be a salaried "inspector" responsible directly to the association which now has no real control over the fare furnished by the steward. This man should taste and examine all the food served at every meal and should have full power to discharge waiters and cooks in case they prove unsatisfactory. The inspector should be perfectly independent of the steward, and should be on hand after every meal to receive complaints about the quality or quantity of the food or service. This arrangement would...
...college could not bear any departure from their ideas of gravity and decorum. All the students in those days had to board in "commons," unless excused by the president. The "commons" at first were very bad and furnished the students plenty of ground for complaint. A regular steward, butler and cook were appointed by the college and a committee was chosen to see that "there be sufficient variety, that the table clothes be clean, and that the students have plates." The tutors were obliged to be in the hall during meal times to see that order was kept...
...Fall River steward has gone back on the 50c. supper arrangement. He says it would take over three hours to attend to the crowd that way. If two or more order supper together from the regular bill of fare, he declares they will get a better meal for less money...
...poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much to expect them to intercede...