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David Harum (1900) Edward Noyes Westcott...
...current rumor that this epidemic was caused by improper handling of the food in the Union, as was the case last spring, when thrifty men went to Stillman in three days, could not be checked last night. Roy L. Westcott '14, manager of the University Dining Halls, could not be reached at a late hour; however Dr. Paul B. Means '17, Medical Adviser, expressed the opinion that the epidemic would be of much greater extent, if this were true...
...Westcott went on to say that he would be more than glad to proceed with the installation of the cafeteria if he felt that there was an even chance of its being a success. Although the Eliot House grill is able to carry itself now, he believes that two such eating places would divide the present patronage of the Eliot lunch in such a way that both grills would fall...
...Eliot House there exist certain conditions which allow us to operate the cafeteria at a cost considerably lower than would be possible at Adams House," said Westcott. He explained that at the present grill it was possible to use men otherwise employed in the Eliot dining halls, thus reducing labor costs...
This deal and the trotting race at the end constitute all the dramatic action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...