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Lowell Honge Dining Hall continued to serve meals throughout vacation for the benefit of these who found it expedient to remain in Cambridge. Christmas Dinner was an imposing meal, a tribute to the ingenuity of Roy Westcott and his minione. Starting with cream of mushroom goup, the meal ran the traditional gamut of turkey and ended gloriously with mince pic, pumpkin pic, plum pudding with hard sauce, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, small cakes, apples, oranges, grapes, mixed noig, cluster raisins, and cheepe and crackers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Riverside Farm, the boiled eggery, is hot a myth--created by Dining Hall Manager Westcott to add distinction to his morning menus. Plain "Boiled Eggs" would have little appeal, according to Westcott. The term "Riverside" was inspired by Brookside Farm, one time egg purveyor to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/12/1935 | See Source »

Scene: a heath near Lowell House. Enter Mr. Westcott with pail of sour cream followed by witches. Thunder and lightning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/27/1935 | See Source »

...wonders, Mr. Westcott, just why? Considering the very healthy prices paid, the compulsory consumption of at least ten meals a week, the excellent mechanical facilities, one wonders just why good money plus the food that can be bought by it doesn't add up to good meals. Perhaps a financial investigation is in order? After all, under the given conditions, no great ingenuity is required to serve even passably decent food. There would appear to be only two reasons behind the present indigestive contrepas; incompetence or a form of financial looseness whose obscurity does not permit of definition. In either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/26/1935 | See Source »

Mistress Eaton, the first Westcott of Harvard back in the seventeenth century, was finally cornered in her devious ways by a constipated student body; in the ensuing investigation, she admitted almost every accusation that was leveled against her decayed menu, but she denied, denied most energetically, that she had ever served ungutted fish or, pleasant thought, sheep's dung. So records Professor Morison in his Harvard History. What, Mr. Westcott, what are your denials? Frank E. Sweetser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/26/1935 | See Source »

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