EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD: The announcement that the price of board at Memorial for the last term has been four dollars and fifty-four cents a week, has aroused anew the disagreeable reflections that were allayed for the time being by the change in the regulations by which the hall was run. We never were quite satisfied in our minds with the way in which the inquiry into the management of the hall was hushed up. We think that if the hall is to be a success next year, there must be a complete change of affairs in its management. There seems to be a general misunderstanding in regard to the complaints about the hall. The authorities are apt to think that because there has been but little complaint lately that the food has been satisfactory; far from it. We have been living on poor food for the last month or more because we were laboring under the delusion that we were getting it cheap, that it only cost four dollars and a quarter a week. In this it seems we were mistaken. We have been paying a high price for very poor board. For the first two months the board was very fair, but in the last month it has become so poor that one often has to leave the table after having eaten barely enough to keep him alive.

But it is argued that food has gone up. Everything costs more, especially meat. The remedy is to have less meat, but have that little well cooked. The meat is not so bad when bought, probably, but it is ruined in the cooking. The reason that it costs so much to run Memorial is that there is so much waste. One has to order so much meat to get a piece that he can eat. If everything was well cooked and nicely prepared, there would be nothing sent back to the screen. Now, every man in the hall orders the whole bill of fare and sends back everything two or three times until he gets some one thing that satisfies him. Let everything be well cooked, and the expenses will be much lessened. The steward does not seem to have learned yet how much it takes to supply the hall. The other evening at dinner asparagus was on the bill of fare. Any man who came at half-past six was told that the asparagus was all out. This thing occurs almost every night. Something or other always gives out in about a half-hour. There is no need to enumerate other short-comings; every one knows what they are; but this one thing is very clear - there must be some radical change in the hall next year if it is to be a success.

R.