Word: traylessism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...avoiding such mishaps? Trayless dining: With a plate in one hand and a drink in the other, you’re free to maneuver between clumsy tray-holders with ease. And once you’ve loaded up on food, try doing a tap dance in the servery to test your balancing skills...
Move aside trayless dining, looks like Harvard’s onto a more convenient way to save the environment. Katharine (“Katie”) S. Walter ’10 and Karen A. McKinnon ’10, co-chairs of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC), have enabled students to expend their eco-friendly energy in a much easier way. In fact, it’s as simple as riding a bike—a bike that’s made entirely out of salvaged and recycled parts, that is. The EAC launched the VeriFast...
...hullabaloo about green being the new crimson, Harvard is not nearly as green as we’d like to think. Sure, we occasionally eat trayless lunches in the dining hall or hold events with fancy banners promoting sustainability and speeches by the likes of Al Gore ’69. At times, the rhetoric can even come off as something out of the show Captain Planet: we claim to reduce carbon emissions and conserve energy, all to save the earth. Yet our efforts to be heroic often come up short...
...House finally lowered the iron curtain, and purged the freshman from dining during lunch and dinner, reminiscent of Harvard President Josiah Quincy III’s, the House's namesake, suspension of the entire sophomore class. The People’s House pioneered the community dinner and trayless dining, and in true Trotsky form, has exported its radical agenda to other Houses. But as always, there’s nothing like the original: Community Dinners in Quincy are unparalleled, with delicacies such as alligator prepared by House Chef Diana, and Kopi Luwak, the most expensive coffee in the world...
...about as unremarkable as its name. Many residents choose to receive the digest version of the list and some simply never sign up. On the subject of dining, however, Quincy is quite vocal. One of the most heated perennial debates concerns the House’s environmental dining policies (trayless dining induced numerous residents to produce fiery manifestos). In a recent exchange one resident went so far as to compare the packed dhall to a “refugee camp.” They must have temporarily confused Quincy with Leverett or the Gulag—unclear which...