UNION RESTAURANT DEFICIT.

The price of board in the Union is higher than anywhere else in Cambridge, the food is not unusually good, and yet there was a deficit for the past half-year of $1,660.52.

Other restaurants run as business enterprises offer good food for the same price as the Union, although they have to pay rent and lack many of the advantages which should make the Union dining room profitable. Something ought to be done to prevent this waste. It is possible that allowing men to "sign on" for the week at slightly reduced rates would increase the business sufficiently to prevent running the restaurant at a loss. However this may be, it is certain that at the present rates there should be no deficit, and it will be the duty of the new administration to find some way of putting the Union restaurant upon a commercial basis.