Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...insatiable cupidity, unexampled persistence and "monumental gall," the average Memorial Hall waiter can probably never be excelled. When this interesting specimen of sable humanity is not engaged in talking politics or adroitly pilfering from the table of his neighbor, the chances are that he will be filling the ears of his helpless victims with tales of imaginary woe or visions of enjoyment which the donation of a "quarter" or "half" will give. The ingenious devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story...
...freshman who has recently severed the ties that bound him to the total abstinence society, recklessly demanded a glass of "Charlotte Russe" of the waiter at Adams' the other night...
...number of the boarders. My own personal experience, which is substantially the same as that of the others, was as follows: I came into the hall a few minutes before nine o'clock, while the doors were still open, and on ordering my breakfast, was informed by the waiter that my order had "given out" - a notorious and disagreeable feature in the management of the hall - but that he would get me something as soon as it came up from the kitchen below. In company with several other men at my table in like predicament, I waited and waited until...
...post of head waiter at Memorial Hall is now filled by Mr. Charles Herbert, formerly of the St. James and Grand Union Hotels...
...remedy that I would suggest for this state of affairs is, that the umbrella racks be removed to the auditor's room, where the paper boy or a waiter might be put in charge over them. The racks would not take up an unnecessary amount of room ranged along the wall, and could be easily disposed of, as now, when not in use. In this way men could have some hope of seeing their umbrellas again when they had put them in the racks, and the dining-hall would not be littered up by the dripping things...