Word: transient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Beginning with breakfast this morning, meals may be purchased at Memorial Hall by the a la carte system. The American and transient plans will be continued as hitherto. Tables will be reserved near the door for those wishing to eat under the new system...
...meeting of the Memorial Hall Committee of the Dining Council held last evening it was decided to set aside a section of the hall for a la carte service. Under the present system either weekly service at $6.50, or transient service, thirty cents for breakfast, thirty-five cents for luncheon, and forty cents for dinner, may be secured. These two arrangements will still continue in force and the a la carte service will doubtless serve as an additional inducement to many men who do not now eat at Memorial...
...Side Lights" are of transient interest. Toward the close of the number everybody seems thirsty. A correspondent urges the restoration of the Yard pump even if Fresh Pond water has to be artfully substituted for the perilous spring water that lurks underground near Hollis. His letter is accompanied by a portrait of the old pump and an ode of President Roosevelt's College days, reprinted in its honor. Later the editor demands a fountain. Just what he says about, I cannot tell, since my proof stops short in the middle of a word, and the time vouchsafed by the Magazine...
...system should be advertised as broadly as possible for not only will a greater number of transient boarders help Memorial, but Memorial will also help the transients who are playing high prices "around the Square" for food unworthy of its name...