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University parking, Salzburg Seminar plans, and food conservation figured prominently on the Student Council agenda last night, as members slogged through a four-hour session at Phillips Brooks House.
Terming the present food crisis "more serious than generally pictured," Zimmerman stated that meatless Tuesdays and eggless and poultryless Thursdays would accomplish little in the way of grain conservation, since most American house-holds buy their provisions days in advance of consumption.
"The first step in any conservation plan should be a return to 85 percent milling of wheat flour," the professor said. Only about 70 percent of the food value of the grain is currently earmarked for human consumption, the remainder going to live-stock feed production.
Here at Harvard, Student Council representatives are conferring with University officials attempting to outline a program that will meet President Truman's request for food conservation. Since the University buys its food and sets its menus at least a week before the students encounter them in the dining halls, no...
Radcliffe's adoption of the conservation plan supplanted an undergraduate movement for voluntary self-rationing in the dormitories.