Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-02

N"atV iuVu lelt. Ihe bones are plckcl
clean, the potatoes eaten to, the lasI
scrap not a trace OF meat or vegetable
on any plato~a poor picking for thu
| scayenger wagon.
Inus is liking reduced 70 bare neces.
sites a cost 20 those who must live
mat way. II "a man, however IL willing
20 spend enough he can live nearly as
wei here as ut Memorial. one mar
made his dnily diet out of the menu "a
that II never cogt him over 40 cents any
day qf ~ year, and averaged only q
ceni$ PntN his breakfast he would
wflT hey card; Oatmeal, cents
Ihlf ~ h'1 q small jar of milk.
foR ,lncheon he wrote. Soup,
ceniS5t wv crackers were served with
Fer his Sinner. to which he came
nun 5yzyffd enough 20 have eaten his
way Ukush the whole list he would
send in4or Roast beef 10 cents; pota.
toes, 3fents; bread, | cent butter
cent? occasionally a vegetable, from 3
to 8 cents, pudding. s cents, or pie
cents, Sometimes he would vary hls
diet by stew or hash or q piece OF pic
az noon, or griddle cakes In the morn
Ing. But his regular meals we're the
extreme OF simplicity seen above. llc
lived a little more economically than
many. but not a few were reduced by
necessity TO cut their food down 10 the
cheapest and simplest; spending hardly
half or this amount, The regime shown,
costing about 81 n week loomed UP as
a large saving beside the SALE Of Memo
rial Hall, to which extras were always
being added.
Memorial Is where the Harvard fresh.
man would naturally so, unless forced
by his finances to the cheaper hall. Here
he would find 1900 fellows sitting In the
great dining hall and the place itself
the sort Of picture he had formed OF
old English dining halls-a great hall
with high arching girders, hung on all
sides with full-length oil portraits OF
Puritan preachers, colonial judges and
governors, English prelates, and all
that noble assembly Of men that have
made history. II is not to be wondered
at that the men passing through col
lege think II an essential part Of their
experience TO dine at Memorial There
Is usually waiting list OF 500 or 600 Land
a man who applies for seat at table
In Memorial In August Will not get in
before the next January once In, how
ever, he will dine there the rest Of his
four years, and II he then goes to the
law school or graduate school VIII likely
continue three years more.
There Is one interesting type Of Har-
ward men not included in either OF the
three classes mentioned--that IL, the
young married man who goes with his
family to Cambridge TO do work In the
graduate school. The Harvard graduate
school Is large enough for a college by
itself More than 800 men are enrolled
In II. OF these quite percentage are
married, enough TO enable their wives
to have a social club Of their own, called
the Harvard Danes. This coterie OF
married students finds an interesting
problem in finances to solve Most OF
them have imagined the East cheaper
than the West to live in and they have
many quiet gasp Of establishment as
they run against the Cambridge prices.
Such man Will go out several squares
Cambridge has no "blocks'D from the
| College Yard, usually near Massaehu-
setts avenue as It runs up into North
Cambridge, around Wendell or Sherp-
how'd streets. Here he will pay from $40
| 10 S25 for small unfurnshed fiat, When
! he goes 10 order his seasons coal he Is
| quite delighted to find coal but s. ton
| especially If he Is a Californian, but
when he Is told the amount he VIII need
| TO keep all his fires going twenty-foul
hours day for six months, ne con-
cudes that California climate more
than offsets cheap coal.
1T Is only when he takes his wife
| list 10 the storekeepers Of Harvard
square and Brattle street, however
] that he realizes what a poor mans
| paradise California Is for inexpensive
| living. His steak, which he thought
| to economlze on by getting a cheap cut
| Is 80 cents a pound for the top OF the
| round. He picks out head Of lettuce
| Is cents-and he remembers the three
| for a nickel that made his salads In the
| Golden State. His caullhower that
| John. the Chinese basketman, would
have sold him for cents at home will
| cost him % cents, likewise a single head
| of celery. He doesn't dare to look az
| most OF the fruit Even apples. which
| he expected would surely be good and
also cheap, he finds poor, and costing
as much for a peck as q whole box
| would In his own State. The truth
gradually dawns upon him that Cam
bridge Is an expensive place In which Il
! live. Then, to drive HIS lesson home
| let him try dinner I'm Boston. He will
find the dinner that cost him a half
dollar In San Francisco will take rs
cents from his purse In the Puritan
town, and In Ike proportion in all the
ordanory grades OF restaurants. But,
with prices Of meats. vegetables and
fruits 80 extremely high, It IL no won
der that the Licensed Vlctualers" as
each displays himself by sign, cannot
| meet San Franciscan standards.
The cooperative dining halls are n
great boon 10 the Harvard student for
| without them. with the high range Of
| prices for food products. many stu
| dents would be unable to stand the
rates OF the private boarding tables,
The student in Berkeley will find room
| and board at an average Of $50 calen-
| dar month. When he goes TO Cam
bridge he must pay $3.50 10 SO a week
| for a similar room, and II he dimes In a
private home he will pay s. TO So moro
week for board-a charge OF from $40
| 10 s25 for what would cost 500 In Berke-
| ley. But the cooperative dining halls
come to his rescue and he can get his
| meals at Memorial for 81 a week or at
Randall for what he pleases to limit
himself Many take rooms In the col.
lege dormltories, where all are unfur-
| nished rooms and range from a few un-
desirable rooms at $50 year to the
fashionable apartments In the modern
buildings. like Hastings Hall. at $500 q
| year. A fair room overlooking the
college yard, third story up. with small
bed room attached, Is $3.50 a college
| year. Two men often take such quar-
| ters and reduce rent to a moderate fig
| ure.
| The college gets the profits from the
dormitories, but the dining halls are
controlled by a student board Of dlrec-
| tors and food Is furnished at cost. an
efficient professional steward having
| the business management. At Memo
rial the walters are regularly employed
colored men, but at Randall all the
waiting Is done by students who re-
ceiye % cents an hour for the service
many earning all their expenses by