The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07

ners at the hall, by chance in hand, shows
probably an ordinary arrangement with
the chief meal of the day;
SOUP.
Macaroni
,Escalloped Oysters
ROAST.
Leg of Mutton Current Jelly
VEGETABLES.
Boiled and Mashed Potatoes Green Peas
DESSERT.
Tapioca Pudding
Tea Coffee
To some natures the multitudinous as
semblage at meals is Objectionable. To
others the great beauty of the system is in
its immensely A member has the privilege
of withdrawing from the association by
giving one weeks notice. The fact was
recently learned from the auditor that 200
were on the waiting list desiring admission.
With the medical school in Boston and the
agricultural department, the. university
with Its different schools contains more
than two thousand students of all classes.
About half the number in residences at
Cambridge board at the hall. To provide
for the others several systems are in opera
ton. A considerable number take
their meals at the restaurants, a
generally expensive arrangement in
such place except where the
living is not good. TO solve the prob
lem of procuring anything like exquisite
culinary forms at insignificant or even very
moderate cost we have yet to depend on
French and Italian genius, yet wanting in
this interesting university town. A choice
between tish-Dalls and baked beans is TOO
| frequently the American rangein dishes OF
| trifling cost, aside perhaps from some OF
| the cereal preparations and the perennial
| pie.
With better systems within his reach
| the Harvard student of limited means
might be economical without starvation
While no epicure, he is not the voracious
| eater additionally represented, having
| frequently the appetite of centaur, ac-
-cording to perpetuated fables. The error
is of consequence in the degree to which il
effects the quality of the college boarding
house fare. With this, further, as no ont
doubts, the moral current of student life i.
| largely bound. The cooks, like the song
makers, are a predominant force witt
civilization, and to disregard the fact ever
| in its limited operation with the universe
ties is probably unwise.
The boarding houses providing for Har
ward students are varied in character as il
prices. The legend familiar in Cambridge
that the rate charged in some of these eX
clusively for table accommodations as ter
or twelve dollars per week is an exaggera
tion. When questioned on the subject, NJ
person specified as keeping an expensive
table admits charging more thar eight dol
lars per week. Of this class of houses On,
near Austin hall has dozen separate small
dining rooms, each with single table, pro
viding for as many clubs, of which larg,
proportion of the members are Law
students. The diet is generous, with Ger
tain New England pecularities, and regu
larly on Sunday merning the proposes
bachelors of law consume baked beans. 4
| Brattle-stree establishment of a distinct
i've character receives a smaller numbe
who also dine in different apartments. Th
price for the table is eight dollars, abou
thirty assembling for meals while a few
have lodgings in the house. A low-voicet
Englishwoman is the director whose ex
4 perience in catering for Harvard un
dergraduates antedates the war. He
"reminiscences of students who left he
house to become soldiers and returned n
more might well be preserved in the an
nails of the university. She then occupies
the old historic house once the home O
Margaret Fuller and recently remedies
! by the Cambridge Social union to form
liabrary. More than thirty years ago sh
provided for the students who now as ia
i theirs bring the quiet English caterer thei
sons to be in turn cared for while they az
in college. Men of eminent names, includ