The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07
nv HARVARD FEEDS.
ROW AND MYSTERY OF UNI
0pRsITY CRAMMING.

n
the original Students Were Fed
1...atfc Revolution-The Dining
o.,ation-The Cost Of College
bard
SToS. Sept. 6.-whether ''the fate of
- depends on how they are fed"-as
hsd with greatest unanimity and
.-.,,,s,f. Of course. in France, where
81, arose-the questions of aliment
.ovorv associations Of the race dur
FsaTs Of college life has never been
onortiouate consideration. The uni
aturallv develops no real epicurism,
ES,o+ of experience and natural tastes
1+hon of rugged youthful appetite;
s.andard of living, however, may be
,cb modified in college establish
MS with the general dietary advance OF
anocb In the last century, for
-. tho Harvard undergraduates were
- 18th beer for breakfast, the addi-
81 element of the morning repast being
N,'..;,,aIv bread. A feature of the college
,nded at New Towne for the promotion
n a,,lasisstical learning in the colony was
r.bouse with large copper boiler where
,as brewed in sufficient quantity for
-io,,s divinity students, who, until 1884,
Iorg wigs with becoming gravity.
,ai- breakfast of 1.-TWO sizings of bread
a . cue about half a pint of beer" II
~ Doetic than the ancient Greek matu-
IL ,,eal of bread soaked in wine, was
'nceniably primitive. ,
Than EVENINGS commons we're pye,
"A although they had milk toast at Thanks
f,Tiuy the divinity scholarship prepara-
T., for The ministry because 1.-THE other
I-sn,ienbere of the world would never have
| mt ms over men enough to have answered
me- ecessities''-refused to be happy with
(ncb luxuries. In 1872, Notwithstanding
|bat the love of pie was already deep-rooted
h the commonwealth, the committee re-
mmended that commons be of better
craiirv and have more variety" showing
snsIIv in these Puritans the existence of an
smnhictyonic germnot previously suspected.
1 fastidious demand was made for clean
tablecloths of convenient length and
bresdtb ITO be furnished twice a week.
The request, further, that pilates be
slowed is as curiously suggestive Of the
nrevious system, more picturesque than
tidv. showing students ranged around the
evening "pye," their shirt bosoms ruffied
with cambria and with sweeping frills at
the wrists
''Our fingers ends were sure to peep
From ruttles full five inches deep"
The great rebellion in regard to commons
was recorded in 1908, when for more than
a week the college exercises were suspended.
While the university had been projected as
the sal qentiun of the protestant and
puritan country, its own saving was clearly
dependent Oh what was to eat. The strug-
gle for gastronomc ameioration was inter
continued until 1S49, bringing
about the abolition Of commons. As a con-
sequence of this crisis prices were risen to
an exorbitant hight in Cambridge boarding
houses and in 1874 the present Dining Hall
Association was organized.
At that date the dining-room of the
Memorial building was completed, while
the theater at the opposite end of the great
structure was not ready for use until two
years later. The dining hall section forms
the nave of the edifice, the Memorial hall
proper which is the central grand division,
being marble-paved transept of magnifi-
cent dimensions. This spacious area, with
entrance from either side of the building,
is place much visited by strangers, VINO
view with interest the high monu-
mental walls bearing in marble and with
ornament of mosaic work the inscribed
record of students and alumni of the uni
verslty whose lives were lost in the civil
war. The newcomer among the members,
TO board at the dIning-hall, re-
celves the assurance from the tacetious
student who Is always there that the mar
tyrS commemorated through the long lines
of marble tablets on the arcade walls of the
transept we're not killed by this memorial
dining Institution.
According to the standing regulations
any person connected with the university
may become a member of the association
by signing the book of applications kept by
NE auditor and filing proper bond, or
yep sting other security at the bursar's
olfce. A president and vice president are
CHOSEN by tue association at large, and two
directors from each school of the university
and each college class represented in the
ASSOCIATION (unless containing less than
iOrty members, when but one director is
allowed are elected by the several
schools and classes to which thew he-
Ong: The election is held in April for the
ensuing year, with the exception that the
Ieshman directors are elected in Oct The
Inc management of the scheme of the din
hg-hall is thus practically in the hands of the
Eudents-whO, as already suggested arc
aot developed amphictyons-the college
importation exercising general oversight
well as advancing money to paw the
WIS Inc whole cost of carrying on the
AL with the interest on advances to nav
Sls approved by the auditor, is assessed bv
olilcers OF the associations on the
aloo1S, tne several amounts being
s =. n ny the auditor and collected by
oursar upon the successive term hijIS
zoe general meetings of the board of Dire"
~S are held once month. At weakly in
@Vals the contents of the COMPLAINT h0v in
= haii are examined by the president and
ivy PRESIDENT, who are authorized to take
4leuiate action In cases where this NAV
,,..9;l necessary. On the day followinga
;9'ing 0i Ghe directors the bnlletin board
csa CD nill SHOWS a summary of such pro-
Gigs as may be considered of general
sequence. Any ungentlemanly conduct
baI part OF members of the association ia
cyl :? sulllclent cause of Suspension or
Nh AYliSlon from membership. ALTHOUGH
moi; 'p1ratlon reserves the power of
fanS alterations in the scheme. all inter
NAV nav 10 omitted. except in matters which
t6 a! seriously affect the safety of the hall
board ''u'ienCs or the price of
cp Ise cost cost of living is regulated by a DE-
aupointmont - iient WIN the steward, whose
IN turn ' an',li Is from corporation, and who
ing neerl Ply al che servants-number-
p92c Jbeally one hundred altogether-makes
reroii OF provisions and orders nroant
ste@ar S While paid fixed salary the
each I rrad receives in addition a small sum
at Tho teS Ior every person having board
be1og nall Tor that time, this head money
averacIp toportionately diminished as the
ceejs week. price of board ex-
ton tina w. on The founding of the associa-
cents 'I NO. .aIe q head-money was fixed at 10