NEW DEAL IN MEALS

With housing and dining facilities satisfactorily and capably provided for undergraduates there remains a large number of students within the University who have neither of these essentials provided by the Administration. Relying upon their own resources graduate students and commuters are left to the mercy of boarding houses and restaurants around the Square. Denied the benefits of regular social contact with their follow students and forced to resort to a rather expensive eating arrangement these men are refused the facilities deemed essential and necessary for a well-balanced undergraduate life.

An inexpensive eating place administered by the University for graduate students and commuters would solve a long-felt need. Memorial Hall, unused except at examination time, might well be reconverted into a dining hall for these men without a great deal of expense to the University. Kitchen facilities are already installed there and with some remodeling of the interior to make a more cheerful atmosphere, it would be a suitable place for such a dining hall. Another solution is also possible if the expense of this in considered too great. The Big Tree swimming pool, idle and unused for many years, could be remodeled without too great an expenditure and made into a cafeteria for graduate students and commuters. Under such a system meals could be served for much less than those in the Houses, and students now eating around the Square could be assured of balanced meals.

Among the obvious advantages to be secured from such a plan are the closer contacts afforded to men denied the opportunities for these at the present time and the relatively low charges for board they could secure in this way. The ideal solution for graduate students, of course, would be the maintenance of a Graduate House, but for the present this plan is probably too expensive.