EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In connection with the much-vexed question of Memorial Hall fare, I should like to bring to general notice an interesting and instructive fact. Recently I was told by a friend that the place where he was boarding was being run on the same plan as Memorial Hall, though of course on an infinitesimal scale. A freshman had started the enterprise. He had secured rooms on Bow street; engaged table-ware, etc., and hired a cook and a waitress. He then issued notices and got up a table of twenty-four men (chiefly Law School men who had left Memorial). He buys the provisions himself, pays the servants and other little expenses, and gets his own board free for his services. The bill of fare is very much like ours at Memorial-steaks or chops, and tea and coffee for breakfast, the same kind of luncheon, and the same dinner, except that there is no fish, and there is one less vegetable, I think. And what do you think it all costs? It varies from $3.48 to $3.50 a week! And the boarders say that they are given perfect satisfaction as regards the quality of the food, the cleanliness of the place and the efficiency of the service. The enterprise has been running successfully for some time.

Now, I think this proves that the way things are managed at Memorial is a crying shame. It would seem to point out that there is either extravagance or fraud there; that either the steward should be dismissed or that expenditure in superfluous ways should be stopped. If a student can buy provisions for twenty-five men at a better price than the steward does for over seven hundred, and give better satisfaction over it withal, it shows that there is something vitally wrong at Memorial which should be overhauled at once.

K.