Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...extravagances like those of our present correspondent we shall hereafter receive in the personal spirit in which they are written. Today we have been obliged to omit a part of the communication, which is devoted to an exaggerated estimate of the material advantages to be derived by a student waiter...
...divinity student to be aggressively on the watch for contempt of those who are not wealthy, at the 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...
...very sure that no member of Foxcroft Club, whether a waiter or not, has read your editorial without feeling much hurt, and to a considerable degree insulted. I trust that no Harvard man can fail to recognize in your sentiments an expression of disloyalty to his college...