New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-08

expense. Formerly the hall was stupendous
table d'hote dining establishment; it is i
unique mixture of table d'hote and Ia carte;
and If Jones eats three or four big hepings of
meat while his dyspeptic neighbor selects only
milk and vegetables, Jones's father pays the
bill
Under the old scheme Men," as the place is
commonly known, of the most lavish
eating establishments in the world. For the
sum Of about 81 % a week the student
could come in and eat as much or as little as
| he pleased He had to take the things set be
fore him. to be sure but these always ap-
petizing and there absolutely stint. Milk
flowed like water: slices of roast beef were
thrown about like griddle cakes; ice cream
melted and went to waste.
Jones would come in from the football field.
or the river. or the walk through the country.
| and order the whole bill Having finished this
| he would order 1t over again. and then ask
| George Washington Johnson his duszy waiter.
| what In the dickens he had to eat"
Smith. on the other hand. would come in
| from town. where he had spoiled his appetite
| by between meal indulgences. He would order
| the whole bill. however. matter of course,
| mince away decately with his knife on a fine
piece of beef. slap it over or twice on his
| plate. stick up his nose disgustedly and in a
peevish tone ask that the odious thing be re-
moved from his sight. Il can't eat this leath-
| err he would tell his waiter. Bring me in
| something rare" But when the rare came in
| 1t would be the way-meat tasted and
spurned and spoiled, like a piece of cake
| nibbled by mouse
Or Brown would come in weary from toilins
| in the library. and. filed with all manner of
ideas. impaired to him by his stomach specialist
| in town. A little SOUP some vegetables a glass
of milk-ths was Browns dinner after which
he would away to the library again. to develop
| his dyspepsia, his headache and his round
shoulders' until the attendant should turn him
out at 10 O'Clock, to continue the search after
knowledge in his own cheerless feebIy lighted
room.
| When it came to expense, however the bills
were divided equally among all these men
and that is just why Memorial is under a new
! plan to-day.
How much money Harvard students will save
under the new system cannot Of course. be told
as yet. That ii will mean in one way or another
substantial benefit to them is certain; and for
this benefit they are largely indebted to Harold
b. Blackwell, of the directors of the associa-
tion and c. F. D, Belden assistant librarian Of
the Harvard Law School Library, who is its
president Belden and Blackwell spent five full
weeks of their vacation working out the plan
They did this without hope of reward and onI,
for the benefit of the students who eat in the
hall.
| 1t is not strange under these conditions that
Memorial, as much as the Harvard Union. is a
centre of college life reflects all the different
| tastes and habits of college life. Who has visited
Harvard without seeing Memorial? What sister
mother, friend. or sweetheart has not stood i'm
the high gallery, gazing down at the animals
feeding" below and exhausting her vocabulary
| of superlatves in expressing her wonder ana
establishment? What student would lose The
friendships he has made over Mems lib.
! eral board, or forget the rough houses" which
have shaken it to its lowest foundations? Who
does not remember the girl who threw rose
down from the gallery and the stampede thai
followed? The ginger ale rough house" wan
| a certain bottlng establishment served the b,y-
| erage free and it went to the heads OF Harvard
men? The innunerable innocent old gentlemen
who have forgotten the request that "men 1e-
move their hats in the gallery? a hundred and
one scenes of fun and hilarious excitement which
| have added untold zest to their undergraduate
days?
| Students never tire of telling how this waiter
came in one day with his arms full and the but
| ter plates in his pocket; how another under
similar press Of circumstances carried handful
Of soup spoons in his mouth and how another
| being asked if there wasn't something the mat
ter with the water. which came in all white
and bubbling, replied. Law. no. sab; dat's de
best fortified water yO' kin get"
| Memorial after all. is always the same. and
although rules have been changed and expenses