Word: students
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scheme has been suggested of having students to wait upon table at Memorial Hall next year. I should like to receive communications on the subject from any who are interested, especially if they contain information about similar plans in vogue at other colleges. Also, will any who would care to serve as waiters, please inform me at once? Before there can be any decision whatever on the subject it is necessary to find out if there could be a sufficient supply of student waiters obtained...
Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...plan recently suggested of having student waiters in Memorial Hall, seems to us an extremely poor one. If put into practice, it would offer to about sixty students the opportunity to earn some what less than twenty dollars a month toward their support through college. Looked at in this light alone, the scheme has some merit, though it is very doubtful whether there will be any response to President Lakin's communication sufficiently general to warrant serious consideration of the change by the board of directors...
Even assuming, however, that enough students could be found who were desirous of serving, there would yet be strong objection to employing them. The material difficulties in the shape of certain falling off in the quality of the service, which would affect all members of the association, and of probable conflict of hours, which would inconvenience the waiters themselves, need hardly be considered. Beyond all drawbacks of the kind which might be tolerated, would still be the properly strong repugnance on the part of students to being served after the fashion of Memorial by men whom they must regard...