Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fortunately for student waitresses the administration clings to 'gracious living' only to the extent of having one sit-down non-cafeteria style meal a day. Dinners at week day suppers and Sunday lunch are waited on individually, the rest of the time waitresses put food on a serving table and carry away dirty dishes from the side-boards...
...Harvard Club of Boston has perhaps the best clubhouse facilities of any alumni organization in America. Squash courts, game rooms, lounges, restaurants, ladies' lounges and meeting room, and hotel facilities, lavishly staffed, provide a meeting place in gracious surroundings...
When union president Daniel G. Mulvihill requested another wage increase for University maids, he did not expect to touch off a purge of gracious living. But the University immediately announced its favor toward the Tech plan of a porter service, of, by, and for the students. The traditional Harvard maid was dusting on towards extinction...
...personal bed-making prospect would only become a reality if the College followed the Tech plan completely, but details have yet to be considered. Yet a loss of gracious sleeping appears well out-weighed by arguments in favor of the student porter...
Roger L. Butler '51, head cheerleader, bemoaned the situation by saying, "One of the best things of living at Harvard is the elimination of that menial task of bed-making. The one last remnant of gracious living is in serious proximity to death...