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...point made is that the price of board on the term bills is higher than would be expected from the monthly reports. It is higher. It is higher than any body expected it would be. So was the price for December and January lower than was expected. The steward expected the price for those two months would be very near $4.50. Before the report for February was made out he believed and stated that the price for that month would be something over $4.50. Such estimates as he makes are based on the general prices of provisions and the number...
...waiters at Memorial was handed over to the tender mercies of the law last evening. It seems he was discharged by Mr. Balch, but before leaving undertook to break into the place where the waiters' clothes were kept, whereupon he was promptly removed by the steward. As he continued to be troublesome two officers were summoned and given charge over...
...room, erecting a desk and railing. These improvements are not to exceed three hundred dollars. Messrs. Hubbard and Cushing were appointed a committee of supervision. After a pretty thorough and general discussion of the coffee question, the whole matter was left as at present, for another trial. The steward reported that the extra cost of coffee for dinner was about seven cents per week for each...
...wish to call attention to the disagreeable odor that has pervaded Memorial Hall for the past few days. The smells that arise from the basement are not reassuring to a person at all particular about his food. We hope that the steward will attend to this matter at once...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to call attention to a flagrant abuse of authority perpetrated this morning by the steward of Memorial Hall on a number of the boarders. My own personal experience, which is substantially the same as that of the others, was as follows: I came into the hall a few minutes before nine o'clock, while the doors were still open, and on ordering my breakfast, was informed by the waiter that my order had "given out" - a notorious and disagreeable feature in the management of the hall - but that he would get me something as soon...