Word: waited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Carey Building. Before the demand becomes too pressing might not the baths there be thrown open to general use? True, they would not prove wholly adequate, but better slight than total inadequacy. Students will realize that they are making the best of a bad matter, and will wait patiently for the good that is in store for them when the Gymnasium is completed; while without the Carey baths they will become forcibly and justly impatient...
...more serious are the practical difficulties of the scheme. In Memorial Hall are fifty-six tables, requiring, under the present membership, the constant attendance of at least seventy five Waiter. The times of meals comprise nearly five hours. One student would hardly care to wait more than half that time. Thus we need a force of at least one hundred and fifty students. Is it not almost impossible that so large a number could be found...
...same time that he evidently regards supreme contempt for those who are, as of itself a virtue; but in bringing the question of contempt into the discussion of the student waiter system, our correspondent raises a false issue. We do not urge that a student should not wait in Memorial because he thereby renders himself contemptible The simple fact of the case is that in the world today the various forms of what may be called body service have come to be the mark of social inferiority. The proposition is now made that this distinction be entirely ignored: that...
...scheme has been suggested of having students to wait upon table at Memorial Hall next year. I should like to receive communications on the subject from any who are interested, especially if they contain information about similar plans in vogue at other colleges. Also, will any who would care to serve as waiters, please inform me at once? Before there can be any decision whatever on the subject it is necessary to find out if there could be a sufficient supply of student waiters obtained...
...problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness for further developments at New Haven, and in the interval of uncertainty all final judgment must be withheld. For the present it can only be hoped that Yale's letter does not express the actual feeling in the college...