Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-09
EATING At COMMONS
One of the Features of Dart
mouth College Life.
sOBRIETY IS COMPUL sorry
Students Must Go Twenty Eight lilies
for an Intoxicating Drink.
FOOD AT MODERATE RATES
Various Experiments Tried-The
Senior Fence-Shaft Erected to
the Memory of John Ledyard.
FOOD AT MODERATE RATES
RY WILLIAM F.. CURTIS.

RN WILLIAM F.. CURTIS.
Special pouence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald
HANOVER, August 4. 1907.
The most striking feature of Dartmouth
College life is the Hall and Commons. OPP
post" the inn. in the center of the village
which Is not only the boarding place for
three-foUrths Of the students. but the social
headquarters, rendezvous and assembly
rooms for student rehearsals and exercises
1t takes the place OF the chapter houses
and clubs found at other institutions Dart
mouth IS a prohibition town. A student
who wants a glass of beer or a drink of
whisky must go twenty-eight miles for it,
and there are no loafing places in the viii
lage except College Hall
There is a reading room with current
newspapers and magazines a social room
forty-three by thirty feet In size with
big fireplace, easy chairs and grand
piano. where those who do not have TO
study can spend their evenings; an athletic
room forty by twenty-five feet, where
the trophies OF base ball and foot ball
games and other athletic contests that have
been won by Dartmouth are preserved
and where the athletic organizations hold
their meetings The walls are lined with
cases containing banners cups foot balls
base balls and other trophies. with photo
graphs of the men who have won them
In the rear OF the building is beautiful
dining hall. similar to those seen at the
English universities. which lacks only age
and smoke to give 1t classical appearance
1t measures eighty-three by fifty feet in
size and can accommodate 400 at the tables
Between six and seven hundred students are
fed here every day. The rest of the under
graduates board at the inn or In private
families In the village, and there are a few
private clubs organized by the students
The hotel charge is SC a week for ordinary
table board, the private clubs and boarding
houses and private families charge from
$3.50 TO $40 week. while a man can
live at the Commons for 81 a week and up
ward. The bill of fare provides table d hote
breakfast for IL cents, another for 20 cents,
little more for -. Luncheon is furnished
at the same prices and dinner from 80 to 60
cents. while any one who prefers to order
g Ia carte can get a baked potato for cents
portion of fried Goldfish for Il cents tea or
coffee for cents. vegetables for 5 cents
each. boiled eggs for Ia cents. roast beef for
% cents. ham and eggs for 30 cents, beef
steak for from - TO 60 cents according to
size; glass a milk for cents and other
orders IN proportion.
Administration of the Commons.
There is a grilroom In the basement ar
ranged in attractive manner, where
meals can be had at all hours. The Com
mons is open only from : to q, from IL to
and from TO I o'clock. The prices In
the grillroom are somewhat higher than in
the Commons. but the portions are larger.
and II is open from { o'clock III the morn
ing until midnight. There is a bar at which
ginger ale. root beer, sarsaparilla soda
water, lemonade and other soft drinks can
be had, with tobacco and cigars at low
prices.
The grillroom and the Commons are run
by the college corporation, with Mr. A. p
Fairfield, manager of the leading hotel in
town, which also belongs to the college, In
oh arff %
have been tried, but the present is the most
satisfactory. II has been demonstrated by
years of experience that wholesome food
in portions sufficient to give proper nour-
ishment to a student cannot be furnished at
the prices named without loss, and the de-
felt has been as high 5000 and as low
as 500 year The cooperative plan was
tried with students directors and an
assessment levied upon the students who
participated at the end OF every month, but
this plan was unsatisfactory and expensive
Then the table was let out at contract with
prices hNed by the trustees. but the con-
tractor gave up in despair and the college
authorities were compelled TO take over the
management and have since been running
II, as at present on strictly cash basis
Every student pays for whatever he gets
as he would do in an ordinary restaurant
and his expenditures depend entirely upon
the STATE Of his exchequer. The manage
ment has no bills to collect and knows ex-
actly where IT stands every day.
Each student is taxed s. a year for the
use of College Hall, and the tax is in
Cluded in his tuition bill. This gives every
one equal rights and privileges and makes
Il the home of every student
There has been some difficulty at times in
preserving order In the big dining room
The head waiter Is in absolute control and
has authority TO deal with cases of dis
order according to his Judgment If a stu
dent refuses to behave himself like gen
ueman OF negleCts to pay his bill. he is not
allowed 10 enter the dining room again
until he has made proper settlement or
apology. Serious violations of the rules OF
propriety are reported TO the faculty. All
Of the employees except the head waiter and
his two assistants and the cooks are stu
dents. About sixty of them serve as
walters, for which they are given their
board; others are employed on salaries
about the building.
The training tables for the various sew
and are also conducted by the college au-
thorities.
Liquor Traffic Excluded
New Hampshire was formerly prohibit
ton state, but the law was not enforced
and 'speah-easies" and blind tigers were
found in every village Recently a local
option law was passed under which, by a
vote OF the people, one saloon may be IL
censed for a certain number of inhabitants:
and the number of licenses varies accord
ing TO the population. But only IS ont
OF 235 towns in the state voted to allow
saloons and they charge 81 200 a year for
license. which Is almost prohibitive. The
village OF Hanover has sufficient population
for one saloon, but voted against license
a nd