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Conversation overheard at Memorial : Waiter No. 1 - "Dis am a fine structyah, Sam?" Waiter No. 2 (critically) - "De exteryh is very fine, sah, but dere is one thing I have notussed about de interyur, - dey have only got foah of de windows painted...
...corner of the car sat a Memorial Hall waiter returning to the scenes of his daily triumphs over twelve brow-beaten individuals who submit to cold roast beef and hot vegetables or cold vegetables and hot roast beef, according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours...
EDITORS HERALD : Why is it that about every second day it occurs that one waiter has two tables at Memorial to attend to. Whenever one waiter takes a meal's vacation his table have to go without that meal. Every waiter should be made to provide a substitute when he "spends an evening...
...seat 1200 persons, is in the new Memorial Hall, which is probably the finest hall in this country, and strikingly resembles the celebrated St. George's Hall at Windsor. Five o'clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner...
...board has been greatly increased; the monthly statements of expenses no longer appear; the Auditor presents his report to the Directors in such a shape, that, by his own admission, verification is impossible; Directors are neglectful of their duty, and their authority is not respected by the head waiter and the steward; employes are inefficient and uncivil. And the great majority of such complaints are only too well founded. It is painfully evident that an immediate and radical improvement in the management of the Hall is necessary. But we would remind the fault-finders that the remedy is in their...