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...attention once more to the perennial problem afforded by conditions at Memorial Hall. Although the Corporation has been in control of the restaurant there for nearly two years, it has been found impossible to increase the attendance to the coveted thousand mark, when Memorial may be operated at its maximum efficiency. The fact that there has been a steady financial loss, together with the persistent rumor that the Hall is soon to have another strong competitor, seems sufficient for the advancement of the following suggestion...
Substitute for the present committee in charge of the Hall a practical and successful restaurateur with complete control. Having stipulated a maximum price of food (five dollars a week, for example), the Corporation would leave the steward free to run the restaurant for what profit he could make. Ordinarily better results are obtained when men in charge of business enterprises (and Memorial should certainly be run on strictly business lines), share in the profits of their work. Moreover, with a stipulated maximum price, the operator of Memorial Hall could not afford to serve poor food, for his profits would have...
...that Harvard has attained a maximum as far as the number of undergraduates is concerned. In the same way that the growth of New England must henceforth be gradual, it may happen that the University must be content to develope its undergraduate department more slowly than in the past. Great educational centres are developing in the middle and far west, which seem to provide suitable opportunity for higher education in the regions where population is increasing most rapidly. On the other hand, the experience and prestige of the Harvard graduate schools leaves them almost preeminent, and as more and more...
Club tables will be assigned as soon as practicable after the Hall is opened to all groups of members wishing to eat together, the management reserving the right to fix the maximum and minimum membership. Each club table will choose one of its members to act for it in dealing with the management. Smoking will be permitted in the main dining hall at dinner within a fixed period...
Club tables will be assigned as soon as practicable after the Hall is opened to all groups of members wishing to eat together, the management reserving the right to fix the maximum and minimum membership. Each club table will choose one of its members to act for it in dealing with the management. Smoking will be permitted in the main dining hall at dinner within a fixed period...