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...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...
...present a few facts which seem worth publication in view of off repeated statements about Memorial board? The high price of board there during the fall has been attributed to the "transient" system. Three or four hundred men are eating there now under this system and about five hundred on the American plan. It is then important to know whether this accusation is true...
...fish and egg" system averaged 800. The average total cost of board to each of them was $5.96 per week. Granting, as those who ate it and even those who provided it will, that this was too high, how much of it shall we blame on the "transients"? The opponents of the latter system say eighty cents per week. We will take their figures. 800 men then paid 80 cents per week too much, total $640, to be divided among the guilty transients and borne by them. A week's board, 21 meals, in the "transient" section in October averaged...
...communication in regard to Memorial Hall in this morning's issue is interesting. The writer has undertaken to prove by a reductio ad absurdum that the new transient system was not responsible for the high price of board in November and December, which statement was made at the time by several members of the Association. It sounds reasonable to advocate the maintenance of both systems in use at present. We should not be surprised if the writer had called attention to a good share of the trouble in advocating a more business-like effort to please...
Commencing with today board at Memorial Hall for regular members will be on the American plan at a fixed price of $5 per week, in accordance with the vote of the members on December 18, Extra orders will be paid for as before, by coupons. The transient system will continue for men who do not eat regularly at Memorial, and prefer to pay only for what they order...