Word: bursar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houses will be such as to make a man want to take a majority of his meals there. Its contention merely centered around the point that a high weekly rate not only detracted from the attractiveness of the House Dining rooms but makes it appear that the Bursar, at least, fears that the surroundings will not be sufficiently attractive in themselves...
...Bursar's statement that this method is the only one under which it is possible for him to break even puts it still definitely up to those in higher authority to permit a certain loss during the early days of experimentation. A virtual subsidy of this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully...
...House Plan the Vagabond will pass the winter months. And from there he will perhaps be able to impart to his earnest readers a bit of, as it were, inside information on the new building program. That is to say, all this will happen if the Bursar's office does not jack up his rent once more and turn the old fellow out in the teeth of a winter's gale...
...since the rooms will be occupied by the same man for three years in succession. The difficulties in the way of achieving a goal of real individuality for each suite are largely financial and the House Masters deserve all support possible in whatever opposition they may meet from the Bursar's office in its ultimate achievement. The rugs, which it is proposed to rent to House Members, for instance, should be sufficiently varied in design to allow of real selection and no sacrifice be made to the economies to be derived from standardization...
...understood that the present proposal of the required minimum is due to the dictation of the Bursar's office. This organization finds it impossible to operate the dining halls in any other fashion without losing money: Its decision must be taken as final since it has had thorough experience in this field...