House Statistican Finds the More You Eat the Less You Pay Under New Dining Scheme--Stay Home, Save Money

One of the most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively he has eaten a total of $7.70 but has paid $8.50 for it. This won't do, so the intelligent and economical student will presumably try another plan.

Next week he decides not to go in to Boston or accept any invitations to dinner or lunch and religiously eats five lunches and five dinners at the House and only four breakfasts. We find him on Friday night very pleased with himself for having come within thirty cents of breaking even, for be staying home nights he has been able to increase the total value of his meals to $8.20. Evidently he is on the right track so he decides to do this one better and stay home Saturday night too. This is rather a bore because one of his less economical friends plans to celebrate the completion of the week's work by dining in town, but he is going to see this thing through to the finish.

He is even more inconvenienced by having to eat in the Square for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday breakfast, but he is a true scientist and 10, on Saturday night he is rewarded, for his six lunches, six dinners and two breakfasts add up to $9.00. At last he has beaten the game.

Not content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week in the House.