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“If I were managing Commons . as
a business, I would much rather give
the student waiters their board and
employ colored waiters besides than to
rely upon the students for service. In
other words, students are not fit by
training or habit of life for the service
required in such an institution as the
Yale Commons. They are fit for a great
many better things and while unable to
do this, they may be the best of men and
the very best of students. After all it
is a very expensive way of earning one’s
board. For the same amount of time,
a much better return can be secured in
other fields of student activity.
“But, after all,” he continued, “we
must remember that the Yale Univer-
sity Dining Hall was established for the
purpose of giving the best board possi-
ble, in the best way possible, at the low-
est figure and to the largest number in
the University possible. And next we
. must consider what is due the 400 or
500 men: who want to eat at Commons
and cannot. Good service there opens
an opportunity for economical board, and
a large number of men is of the first im-
portance to the University. Even if the
change makes difficulties for a few men, .
that is not in itself sufficient-reason for
opposing the change.”
THE WAITERS’ SIDE.
The general feeling of the waiters may
be stated briefly as follows:
In the first place, they answer the objec-
tion to student service on the ground of
economy, by calling attention to figures
only. In estimating the cost under the
old system, the board of the thirty stu-
. dents waiters, which was given for their
services, is placed at four dollars a week,
which is the average charge at Com-
mons. There were approximately thirty
student waiters, which brought, on this
basis, thé expense to the Commons of
$120 per week for their services. There
were, in addition to this, ten colored
men who received not only their board,
but six dollars a week besides. It is as-
sumed that, under the new plan, there
will be about thirty colored waiters.
They will receive six dollars a week,
making a total of $180 a week and their
board. The difference is the difference
between $180 per week and the board of
ten colored men, as under the old system,
or $180 per week and the board of thirty
colored men, as under the new system.
In other words the new system means an
aditional cost of the board of twenty men
per week, which may be placed at $80
per week.
Against the claim that for all this the
students are such poor waiters and so
wasteful that it is much more economi-
cal to employ the professional colored
waiters at the additional expense, the
students ask why it is that the landlords
and landladies of New Haven, whose
interest is a purely business one, have
so generally employed student waiters.
They think that these rather shrewd
people would have found out long ago
that it was not profitable, if the student
waiter was not able to master the work.
The charge of waste on the part of
student waiters is in general denied by
the waiters. They claim that no more
food is wasted than is absolutely neces-
sary in such a place as Commons. They
admit that there is waste, but charge this
to the habits of the boarders themselves, ©
who will come in in scores two or three
minutes before Chapel time, demand
their breakfast at once, and then have
to hurry off unable to eat more than a
small part of it.
The waiters add, however, that if the
charge of waste can be proven against
any individual, the waiters as a whole,
or the College at large, would support
the action of the authorities in dismiss-
ing those waiters and placing men who
were more careful in charge. What they
criticize, they say, is holding the whole
body of waiters responsible for that
ee at most, only a few can be guilty
of. |
THE LENGTH OF SERVICE.
On the main point of longer time of
service the answer is made that the
heaviest rushes come at times when
longer meal hours would not be able to
lessen them. At breakfast the only hur-
ried time is just before Chapel, and this
cannot be improved by a longer break-
fast hour. At noon and at night the
heaviest rush is in the first fifteen min-
utes of the meal hour. The chance for
later hours would not, they say, be
taken advantage of by the majority of
boarders to reduce this rush to any ex-
tent. Nearly all want their lunch
and dinner at about the same time, and
they generally will not go later and get
it just because they know they can. In
support of this claim the waiters point
to the large private houses, where, al-
though the hours, especially at night,
are much longer than those at Com-
mons, very few boarders avail them-
Selves of the privilege. In answer to the
charge that student waiters are liable to
cut at the end of their hour, the waiters
make a general denial, and say that they
stay until work is done.
In general; as to their service, the stu-
dent waiters say that is as good on the
whole as that given by professionals.
They claim that at the ten tables, at
which two students have hitherto waited,
service is better than at the ten tables
waited on by one colored man each, and
at the tables at which one student has
served, he has done as well as a profes-
sional, for he is always an old waiter and
knows his men. The waiters say that
this is borne out by the testimony of
those upon whom they have waited, who
generally express their satisfaction with
those who have waited on them and their
regret that any change has been effected.
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Ninety-Three Class Record.
It is probably safe to say that the Sex-
ennial Record of the Class of Ninety-
Three is very near to, if it does not hold,
the record for promptness in publication.
It is also safe to say that its value to
the Class is thereby enhanced many fold.
- The record is published by the Class
Secretary, Noah H. Swayne, 2d, and is
a very informing account of the last
reunion, with a complete compilation of
the individual records and addresses of
the members of the Class. The record
of the reunion is interesting, even to one
who is not a member of Ninety-Three,
and recalls with a good deal of distinct-
ness the time when Ninety-Three was
in New Haven last Summer. The Class
has always been given to unusual cheers
and songs. On Monday afternoon of
Commencement week, a Song Festival,
as it is called in the record, was. held
at the Tontine. It commenced with six-
teen present at lunch, with ever in-
creasing attendance until about five
o'clock. At this time “a ditty, adapted
by Cook’ and Swayne,” was sung, of
which the last two stanzas were as fol-
lows:
How well do I remember the charge
OI 96,
When the shot and shell was fallin’
fast and thick;
Along comes a cannon ball a whizzin’
through the air,
And struck Hickox in the neck.
Then up jumps Hick and sez, “By gosh,
my neck is tough,
You see they’re trying to kill me, but
they can’t.”
Oh! the good old days, there'll be no
more hereafter
When we fit for General Shafter.
CHORUS.
When we fit for General Shafter,
When we fit for General Shafter,
Oh! the good old days, there’ll be no
more hereafter
When we fit for General Shafter.
How well do I remember the days of ’93,
When we all sat along upon the fence;
There were several of our men didn’t
do a thing then, ?
Which the same haven’t done a thing
sence,
“Skee” played good pool, and for tips
he kept a school,
But Bowns raked in all the pence.
There was “Bim” and “Merry Jerry”
and Stoutenborough Terriberry, .
When we all sat along upon the fence.
CHORUS.
When we all sat along upon the fence,
When we all sat along upon the fence,
There was “Bim” and “Merry Jerry,”
and Stoutenborough Terriberry,
When we all sat along upon the fence.
A certain cheer is recorded in this
book, which has hitherto baffled ob-
servers at baseball games. It is worth
while reproducing it here, if for nothing
more than to satisfy the curiosity of
those who have wondered what the Class
of Ninety-Three was talking about. It
runs thus:
The equation gives intercept B,
The equation gives intercept B,
The equation gives intercept B and the
slope,
Is y=mx-+B.
The tangent of Theta you see,
The tangent of Theta you see,
The tangent of Theta is just as you see,
It’s y over mx+ B.
The University Secretaryship.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., who was
appointed Secretary of the Corporation
at its Commencement meeting, will not
begin the active duties of his position
until next Commencement, when he will
finish his Theological course at the Cam-
bridge Divinity School. Most of the
work of the office will be cared for by
Professor Dexter during his absence.
Mr. Stokes will be in New Haven on all
formal occasions when his presence as
Secretary will be required. A _ good
many people have asked whether Mr.
Stokes may not have duties, after he has
been ordained at Cambridge, in connec-
tion with the College pulpit here. The
WEEKLY’s best information here is that
Mr. Stokes does not intend to have any
official connection with the religious life
of the College. As a resident of the
College community and a member of the
College staff, he will undoubtedly, as in
undergraduate days, take a very lively
interest in all religious matters.
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Be el. se8
The Treasurership.
As the WEEKLY goes to press no defi-
nite steps have been taken towards se-
curing a successor to Mr. Farnam, as
‘Treasurer of the University.
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