The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07
HOW HARVARD FEEDS
The History and Mystery of Uni
Versity Cramming.
THE DINING HALL ASSOCIATION.
How the Original Students Were Fed-A
Dietic Revolution-The Cost of
College Board.

New YORK, Sept 8, 1S9O.-[Special cores
pondence of TIE HERAED. Whether ''the
fate of nations depends on how they are
fedn-as has been held with greatest unan-
unity and empreSsement of course in France
where such faith arose-the question ali
ment for the temporary associations of the
race during the years of college life has
never been in proprotionate consideration.
Theuniversity naturally developes no real
epicurism, product of experience and of
natural tastes rather than of rugged youth
ful appetite; the standard of living, how
ever, may be found much modified in col
lege establishments with the general die
Jary advance of this epoch. In the late
century, for example, the Harvard under
graduates were served with beer for break
fast, the additional element of the morning
Tepast being exclusively bread. A feature
of the college founded at New Towne for
promotion OF ecclesiastical learning in the
colony was a brewhouse with large boiler
where beer was brewed in sufficient guam :
tity for the pious divinity students, who,
until 1874, wore long wings with becoming
gravity. Their breakfast of 1.-TWO sizings
of bread and q cue (aoout half a pint of
BEER less poetic than the ancient Greek
matutinal meal of bread soaked in wine,
was undeniable primitive.
While Evenings commons were a pye,''
and although they had milk-toast at
Thanksgiving, the divinity SCHOLARSHIP
preparation for the ministry because ''the
other hemisphere of the world would never
Il'have sent us over men enough TO have
answered our necessities refused to be
happy with such luXuries. In 1872 not
withstanding that the love of pie was
already deep rooted in the commonwealth,
.1y.l
mons be of better quality and have more
Variety showing finally in these Puritans
the existence OF an amphytrionic germ not
previously suspected.
A fastidious demand was made for ''clean
tablecloths of convenient length and
breadth to be furnished twice week
The request, further, that ''plates be
allowed" is as curiously suggestive of the
previous system, more picturesque than
tidy. showing studen0s ranged around the
evening ''pye," their shirt bosoms ruffleC
with linen and cambria and with sweeping
frills at the wrists.
Our fingers ends were sure to peep
From ruifies full i've inches deep.
The great rebellion in regard to common.
was re, ccded in 1865, when for more thar
a week the college exercises were sus
pended. While the university had beer
projected as the sal gentiam of the Protest
was clearly dependant on what was to eat
The struggle for gastronomic amelioratiol
was internationally continued until 1919
bringing about the abolition of commons
AS a consequence of this crisis, ''price
were risen to an exorbitant height in Cam
bridge boarding houses" and in 1874 tn,
present Dining Hall association was organ
lied.
At that date the dining room of the me
mortal building was completed, while tn
theatre at the opposite end of the grea
structure was not ready for use until tw
years later. The dining hall section form
the nave of the edifice, the memorial hal
proper, which is the central grand division
being marble paved transept of magnifi
cent dimensions. This spacious area, wit
entrance from either side of the building, i
a place much visited by strangers, VIII
view with interest the nigh monuments
walls bearing in marble and with ornamen
of mosaic work the inscribed record of stu
dents and alumni of the university who's
lives were lost in the civil war. The new
conner among the members, expecting
board at the dining hall, receives the ASSN
ance from the facetious student who is a
ways there, that the martyrs commend
rated through the long lines of marbl
table is on the arcade walls of the transeu
were not killed by this memorial dining il
StitutiOn