Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Whitaker & Baxter: "The first skirmishes were ended and won. Unfortunately, the war was not." These first skirmishes had been paid for out of $2,250,000 raised from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast...
Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation...
Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had...
Memorial Hall flourished for over half a century on a voluntary basis. Each student had a certain seat he occupied for all meals. Serving 1000 men a day under the vaulted arches of the nave, the association charged an average weekly rate of $3.95. Class wars still occurred and even...
These three different opinions constitute the modern food problem. As was said in the nineteenth century when Memorial Hall went into operations as a voluntary commons, only time will tell how the problem will be solved