Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-07-26


Rolls and Mullins Eaten at Memo
rial Hall In One Day-ReguIatiOna
of the Dining Association.
Few people stop to think Of the enor-
nous amount of food which supplies the
brain fuel for Harvard students.
The figures below were kindly given to
the writer by the auditors and stewards
of the two great feeding establishments
OF Harvard, Memorial hall and Randall !
hall. These two establishments together
feed something over 1000 students a
meal. There are, of course, many smaller
clubs and boarding houses which, COM
bined, feed somewhere between 500 and
1000 students, and which are run by pri-
vate individuals or concerns. But the /
great body of men living in Cambridge
eat at these two halls, which are under |
the patronage of the university; and as ,
food, like money, save in each individ-
uais case, is not specially impressive ex-
cept in vast quantities, these smaller
places will not be taken into account.
Memorial hall, much the older and
somewhat the larger of the two great
feeding places, accommodates 800 men
at one time, and by the plan of assigning
half as many men again to a table as it
will seat mt once this works perfectly
well. since the meal hours last an hour
and half, the feeding capacity of the
hall is greatly increased.
The hall is run by the Harvard Dining
association, a purely cooperative affair,
on the American PLAN" with an extra
| list" orders from which are charged sep
arately on the bills. The association is
composed of all who eat at Memorial
hall. Any one connected with the uni
versity may join, and it elects from the
student body a president and directors,
whose duties consist in seeing that things
go smoothly and in engaging the auditor
and steward, who in their turn see to
the general running Of the establishment
hiring servants, paying bills, buying
| provisions and the like.
The object of the association is to pro-
vide good board cheaply. This is admir-
ably accomplished, for the food as a rule
Is very good and the price is always in
the immediate neighborhood of 81 a week,
sometimes few cents more, sometimes a
few cents less. If the price Of board does
not go over 81 week the steward re-
ceives a bonus, called 'head money!" Of
2l2 cents from every student for that
week. How carefully and exactly things
!
itemized by the auditor as follows, the
items being for one student for one week
Provisions, $26S; service, &c cents;
coal, cents; water, 2 cents; gas, 3 cents;
crockery, Ga cents; interest on loan, Z
: cents; reduction of debt, 3 cents; repairs,
J 3 cents; allowances for Sunday absences
- cents; miscellaneous, cents; total
, 1874; head money for steward, ~ cents
-$3.96h.
But the enormous amount of food con.
sumed is, perhaps, the most impressive
> and interesting fact connected with this
great establishment. The following fig
+ ures are for one week, only the more i'm
/ pOrtant articles being named, of course:
t Meat, $4,000 pounds; fish, 1, 120 pounds
/, potatoes, l20 bushels; apples, l6 barrels
coffee, $50 pounds; eggs, LOO dozen; veg
/ etables, 10 barrels; milk, 1000 gallons
flour, 20 barrels.
: There is also a SAVIOR of 60 bags, a.
e large as barrels, of salt.
O The kitchen, which is in the basemen
n everything used in the hall except tn
F. crackers is cooked here, is wonderful t
: behold on account of the size of its ovens
: kettles and utensils. For instance, one 0
i the soup kettles has a capacity Of IL
gallons, another of 80, another Of 60, tw
Of 40 gallons and two of 30. The grea
|, roasting oven will contain "a huge pan
J. and is capable of cooking at one tim
= 1880 pounds of meat. Each day tn
!. bakers produce $500 rolls, $500 muffin
= and 2,400 lOaves of bread, not to mentiO
: 1,400 pies and quantities of other things.
- The laundry work, too, is done in th
Is basement, and each day there go fort
&c from it 115 clean tablecloths and $3.50
IT napkins,
u 1t is interesting as an example Of Il
It painstaking manner in which the place
10 run that each week about 1925 come
4 back from the sale of bones and grea'
q and about $50 for the swill. The gOC
. broken food is sold every morning for
10 cents a basket and nets over 500.
Besides this vast amount of food CO..
sumed on the regular American pla
there is the extra" order list, consistiI
n largely of delicaces. During last yei
C. enough food was ordered from this Ii
g. to be charged on the bills in the aggr
m gate to the amount of $16666.S5. Th
~ same year the regular board charg
!. amounted to $165,323.20, making $1S1
q 990.05 in all.
Is Randall hall, like Memorial, is a c
ne operative scheme and is under the st
eh association. But it is, unlike Memoirs
ed run entirely on the European plan.
is. has been in existence only two years,
an has been most successful and now nul
bers about $40 members. The dini
hall is a new building, built especially
!, the purpose, with all modern cOnve
'0' fences. and accommodates about 800 m
Hh at q meal.
OF The object of the association is to pl
er- vide a place where the poorer studeI
lie can live at even less cost than at Men
,fx rial and still have good food. The Eul
,se pean plan, of course makes it possible t
,os a student to eat as simply as he likes a
:. pay in prOpOrtion-if he wants only C
- of coffee for breakfast, he pays for Oh
that. If he is absent from a meal,
course he does not pay for it. Also t
food can be sold somewhat cheaper
re cause the expenses for service are lie
ed as all the waiting at table and some
2 the outside serving also are done by 81
he dents.
The average board here is about So
a week, though number expend less a
a good many spend considerably more.
- man can absolutely suit his own Ia
D. and pocket. Randall hall also has
Ia extra" list from which dainties may
ith ordered, though they are not charg
separately.
Connected with Randall hall is the d
DIV kitchen service, which sends out meals
ess students confined to their rooms. This
GUS a great thing, for the food is good a
-sw the service inexpensive and prompt. l
even with all things favorable, Cambria
. is a rather homesick place for a sick m
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