THE TRAY BEARERS

Another restaurant has entered the ranks in Harvard Square, and the competition in pleasing the students' palates flares up eagerly once more. Statistics on eating habits are of little value, for the number of restaurants and their respective popularity shift with the dazzling speed of the population of a boom town in a gold-mining district--a simile not without exact application to the situation here. In spite of the excessive number of eating-places in the Square, there appears to be business enough to keep everything from hot-dog booths to semi-night clubs in existence.

Harvard apparently is not particularly worried this year about the eating problem. It may be that last spring's uprising was only a momentary gesture of those who were soon glad to return to tray-carrying three times a day. For a time it seemed that the tyranny of the cafeterias was to be ended; but the pledge to eat in the promised dining hall met with a disappointing number of signers. There was no specific objection to the food in the Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy among Freshmen to foregoing the doubtful pleasures of a cafeteria menu, and inertia among the upperclassmen. And there the matter rests. Indifference again dictates student policy, and even the pleasant pictures of Memorial Hall days in its halcyon are impotent to arouse dissatisfaction where none exists.