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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Gentlemen: As one of theoldest members of the Harvard Dining Association, and one of the very few who have lived under two administrations, I have taken a keen interest in the recent discussions concerning a change of steward. I have talked with several of the members who are confessedly eager for a change and as far as I can learn, the only serious complaint is that the service in the dining room is not as good as it should be, that some of the waiters are careless and others incompetent. I must say that it seems...
...servants' rooms. The upper stories are arranged as dormitories or students' rooms. The eastern portion is the gymnasium. There are accommodations for about one hundred and twenty students, besides officers, teachers and servants. In this building most of the lady students live, their material wants looked after by a steward, whose wife, as matron, carefully orders lights out in the reception rooms and parlors at 10 o'clock, and performs other duties of a similar nature and equally onerous...
...Balch, steward of the Dining Association, has handed in his resignation, to take effect as soon as his successor shall be appointed. The corporation will take immediate steps toward the appointment of a new steward, who will be installed in the position as soon as possible. The troubles that have been threatening the hall will thus it is hoped be happily averted...
...express a feeling that is shared to a greater or less degree by many of the members of the Dining Association. If there is a general feeling that Mr. Balch is incompetent as a manager of the hall, it is high time that some action were taken. The steward is removable by the corporation, and the board of directors have only the power to request such a removal. If a general dissatisfaction like that expressed by our correspondent exists, it is certainly time for the directors of the association to request the corporation to remove Mr. Balch, and we hope...
...food is of actually bad quality, and, more than that, is rendered almost uneatable by the poor cooking it receives. The amount received from over five hundred boarders at $4.58 a week certainly ought to provide food of good quality and well cooked; and with a capable and conscientious steward it would undoubtedly provide such food. Without exception, every student with whom I have talked about Memorial Hall has expressed a desire to have Mr. Balch removed and a competent man put in his place - a man who will give us food that we can eat. The repeated assertions...