Word: waitering
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...short," and that this inconvenience has occurred with annoying frequency within the last few days. It happens every day now, that the man who is so unfortunate as to arrive so late as 1.10 for lunch finds everything has "Fun out," and is fed with any scraps his waiter may have the ingenuity to gather. At dinner time the story is apt to be repeated if the student fails to arrive before a quarter past...
...satisfactory. The first act has been staged, and the parts assigned as follows: Leif Ericsson, the Viking, T. Stensland 2L. Tyrker, his confidant, J. L. Kimbrough '02. Bjarne, P. L. Fish '01. Sigurd, F. M. Sawtell '02. Olaf, keeper of the "Outside" Inn, J. M. Ross '01. Sweyn, a waiter, J. C. Miller '01. Magnus Jarl, the Norse Earl, M. J. Tobey '01. Sylvia, his daughter, J. S. Chipman '01. Minna, H. F. Hurlbut '01. Brenda, wife of Tyrker, W. H. Taylor '01. Helga, R. F. Jackson '03. Ingrid, A. W. Denison '03. Walting-maids to Sylvia. Vikings, fishermen, peasants...
...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
There is but one argument in favor of the adoption of the student waiter system at Memorial Hall, that it would assist in giving employment to poor students: Those who object to the system on sentimental grounds have been sneered at as victime of snobbishness and prejudges. Now, if the experience of five years has taught me anything, the Harvard student is little open to the charge...
...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...