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F. A. CORBIN,
1000 CHAPEL ST,.,
New Haven, Conn.
NO STUDENT WAITERS,
Yale Dining Hall Adopts a New Plan.
Early in the Summer the students who
had been waiters at the Yale University
Dining Hall, known as Commons, re-
ceived the following notice:
New Haven, Conn., July 8, 1800.
Dear Sir:—I have been informed. by
Mr. Farnam, Treasurer, that at the last
meeting of the University authorities it
was decided to have only professional
waiters at the dining hall hereafter. I
was not present at the meeting, but the
plan proposed is, to considerably extend
the meal hours, so as to do away with
the great crush, and thereby to improve
the service, cut down the waste of food,
and have better order in the hall.
I therefore write to inform you of this
action on the part of the powers that be,
so that you may not depend upon a
place in the hall next year.
Personally, I wish to thank you for
your faithfulness in the past, and assure
you that I shall be only too glad to ren-
der you any service I can outside of the
dining hall.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Joun Q. Tixson.
The receipt of this notice by the thirty-
three or more students who had been
securing their board free by acting as
waiters at the Dining Hall, was in the
nature of an unpleasant surprise. There
had been from time to time during the
year, and, in fact, for a number of years,
warnings from those in control of Com-
mons that it would be necessary in the
very near future to abolish the system
of student waiters, unless certain changes
could be made in the way in which the
service was rendered. These warnings,
and particularly the latter ones, had been
quite distinct, but it was generally be-
lieved that the radical change suggested
was at least a matter of the quite dis-
tant future.
Gowdy’s
The store has been all torn
up and there is yet no
chance to display the new
stock. But we are still do-
ing business and when the
new front at last is in and
all the changes made we will
be better prepared than ever
for supplying Yale men with
all kinds of gentleman’s
furnishings.
Ww. H. GOWDY & CO.,
Opposite Osborn Hall,
Successors to DeBussy, Manwaring & Co.
It was said at once when the steps be-
came known, that this meant that a num-
ber of men, variously stated at from five
to fifteen, would be unable to return to
College, and that a similar number of -
men would, in the future, be discouraged
from entering Yale from year to year,
because this means of meeting one of
the principal expenses of the year was to
be removed. It remains to be seen
whether this contention will be borne
out by facts and it is also open to ques-
tion whether the elimination of this par-
ticular opportunity for earning one’s
board will, in the end, be an unmixed
evil to those affected.
This much is true. The management
of Commons has taken this step only
after the most careful consideration
and after ‘trying for a
the system hitherto in vogue. An in-
terview by a reporter of the WEEKLY
~ with Mr. John Q. Tilson, Yale ’or,
the Steward of Commons, resulted in a
general statement of the reasons for the
change.
In general, it was simply a business
necessity. This would go without say-
ing for anyone who knew Mr. Tilson
and his own College course and his at-
titude towards those who were trying
to make their way through College. Mr.
Tilson himself worked his way through
college, and he says now that in spite
of the recommendation of his predeces-
sor that the plan ought to be at once
changed, he has used such influence as
he has had with the authorities govern-
ing the management of Commons to re-
tain the system up to this point, believing
that he might be able to eliminate the
difficulties and so preserve the means of
support for the individuals involved.
Before stating the reason that finally
impelled the change, it is well to say
that Mr. Tilson has not final authority
in this matter and that.he was not pres-
ent at the meeting at which the change
was ordered; that his only function was
to report the facts to the Committee in
charge. This Committee consists of the
Treasurer, Mr. Farnam, as head of the
Department in which the Dining Hall
was run, and certain members of the
Faculty who are considered to be most
in touch with student life.
The circumstance precipitating the
change was the order of the authorities
for a lengthening for the hours of
service of the meals. This lengthening,
it was contended, was necessary in
order to properly serve the food,
to prevent the confusion, noise
distraction in the hastily served meals
hitherto, and also to make it pos-
sible to serve more men. A longer time
for each meal means that some of the
tables may be occupied by two sets of
students, and so the number of men who
find accommodations at Commons will,
it 1s hoped, be raised from something
over 400 to between 500 and 600.
meals covering two hours in the morn-
ing, from 7.30 to 9.30, one and a half
hours at noon, 12.20 to 1.50, and one and
a half hours at night, from 5.30 to 7, it
would become simply an impossibility
for students to serve. It would take too
much of their time and would be sure
to conflict with recitations, so that prob-
ably a double set of waiters for ‘one or
more meals would be necessary.
So the time element may be considered
one of the first and most important con-
siderations. The second is the matter
of system and discipline, and the careful
following of rules. It is claimed that
the experience of the management of
Commons from the time of its founda-
tion to the present time is unmistakable
on the point that it is impossible to secure
the same absolute obedience to all regu-
lations and the same system from stu-
dent waiters as from those who are pro-
fessionals, and who know that their place
depends entirely on the manner in which
they live up to every rule. It is said
that disciplinary measures have hitherto
only provoked a great deal of protest and
unpleasant feeling, and that if young men
who are students in the University will
not accede to a simple request to conduct
themselves in that manner, they will not
fulfill the requirements and any system
of penalties which may be stated. It
ought to be said, however, that the pres-
ent manager of the Commons, Mr. Til-
son, has relied not on disciplinary meas-
ures, but on requests for cooperation to
improve the service. In regard to his
success in such an effort, Mr. Tilson
says, that he has nothing to complain
of concerning any individuals, but that
the general result, after all these years
of control, shows him that there is some-
thing inherently wrong in the system,
and the Commons cannot be con-
ducted as it should be conducted until
its employees are paid employees, who
tely for their positions absolutely on
long time
and -
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the way in which they fulfill their duties.
The principal criticism under this
second head of failure to get a satis-
factory service, is that of waste of food.
It is contended that the student waiters
in such an institution of such size as the
Commons, with such a hurry and rush
accompanying the feeding. of several
hundred students ini a short time, are
uable to use sufficient care in serving the
food and that food is wasted. On ac-
count of this, food is wasted in large
quantities every day. |
Commenting on this view of the case,
one business man who has studied the
situation with a great deal of care, put
it to the WEEKLY in this way: :
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