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...Clinic gives "student menace" cases special atention. Any waitress or other dining hall employee who has a communicable disease, such as a cold, is considered a monace to the health of the students. With advice and pay from the Clinic, the patient must stay off the job until recuperation is complete. When an employee has been ill, before he can return to work he must submit to a checking over by the doctors at the Clinic...
When asked about the effect of the Summer School on business, the waitress of a chain cafeteria looked out into the room full of soldiers and sailors and said, "We ought to change our name to 'The Armed Forces Canteen...
Largesse. In Manhattan, an unemployed waitress perched on a window sill, showered $14-worth of nickels, dimes, quarters to passers-by in the street. She explained to police: "I felt sorry for those poor men." An indignant waiter sputtered that the largesse was his cache of tips...
Handles. In East St. Louis, Edward J. Japps changed his last name to Sinai. In Birmingham a waitress whose first name is Pearl hoped to become a Navy mascot: her last name is Harbor...
Naturally such a plan presents countless disadvantages. It is pleasant to be able to sit down and order one's food from a waitress, doing no work and eating in style. The dining halls will be distinctly noisier and far less enjoyable places to eat when one has to work for one's meal. But much as we take our present comfort for granted, we must wake up to the realization that the House dining room system as it is et up at present, is a luxury, like most of the rest of the Harvard living scheme. Luxury...