Word: transients
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...system at Memorial Hall, which will be on trial for the next month, was started yesterday. Six tables at the western end of the hall have been reserved for transient members, and the accommodations will be increased with the demand. A small number of new members and a few of the old members are already on the transient list. One hundred men took advantage yesterday of the rebate allowed for Sunday absence...
This allowance for absence, something which has never before been given at the Hall, is the critical point in the new scheme. It will probably entail a loss of at least $100 a week, which must be made up by increase in membership, either transient of permanent, if the finances of the Hall are not to be disastrously affected. Since the mid-year examination period closed the membership list has been growing and is now 920. The Hall can be run most economically when the membership is about 1200, and if that figure is reached the Directors of the Hall...
Yesterday the Harvard Dining Association started its new system for the benefit of transient as well as regular members. Already the University is commencing to rally to the support of the experiment, for the plan promises to furnish cheaper and better board than ever before. We fully expect that the special provisions will appeal to a new class of men, who, if they do not neglect the opportunities offered, will by their support enable the association to run on a still more economical basis. Regular members, also, should not forget that the $4 a week guarantee is only a temporary...
...while a better system was being inaugurated. However this may be, the scheme was adopted by a substantial margin, and deserves all support for the month of march, if the trial is to be a fair one. There are many men, not now enrolled as members, to whom a transient membership should be a great convenience, and many more who will be attracted by the low cost of regular board now assured. To those who have studied the scheme carefully, its rational provisions for all classes of members leave no doubt of its deserved success...
...Tables will be reserved for regular members as at present. Transient members may form groups to which one or more tables will be assigned, according to the size of the group...