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To the Editors of the Crimson:

I read with interest the objections of the Dining Association to the proposed dining hall. I believe that each of their reasons is mistaken and untenable.

In the first place the difference between $3.50, the maximum price for regular board at the new hall, and $3.95, which I believe is the year's average for Memorial, amounts to $16 a year, which is an important saving for some men. But this is not the point at all. Opportunity for economical living comes, not from regular board, but from the a la carte system. The average of 100 men for six weeks to the Foxcroft Club as compiled by the Auditor, was $2.72 a week. This means an average saving of $45 a year from Memorial prices, with opportunity to live for less.

"Secondly, this new scheme allows for the continuance of the general table system, the greatest evil of Memorial."

If this means that the general system is to be continued at Memorial, I cannot see what it has to do with the policy of the new hall. If it means that the general table system is to be introduced in the proposed hall, it is a misstatement, as club tables are to be provided.

Thirdly the committee is sure from observation and inquiry that there is no demand for a larger Foxcroft system. I question the completeness of the inquiry made between April 25, when the new scheme was proposed and April 26, when the committee reached this conclusion. If the committee is right, however, the hall, by the terms of the circular will not be run on this scheme, so if it is as "perfectly sure" as it says it is, it need not have spent time protesting. Its only given reason, however, is fallacious. It is no argument to cite the fact that two months before the close of college the Foxcroft has no waiting list. As well say we need no more dormitories because rooms cannot be let at this time. At the begining of the year the Foxcroft had a large waiting list. It was gradually reduced as men found other boarding places, and finally the club increased its membership in order to extinguish it.

Fourthly, the a la carte and the table d'hote systems are carried on thousands of restaurants, including Allnutt's on Harvard Square. It is perfectly practicable to have a man order a regular dinner instead of a variety of dishes. Let me give an order slip as designed by the Foxcroft Auditor. I add present Foxcroft prices, which show a saving of four cents over the dishes ordered separately:

REGULAR DINNER ORDER.Price 20 cents.

Meat (choice) (10)

Potato and butter (3)

Vegetables (choice) (3)

Tea, Coffee, etc. (choice) (3)

Dessert (choice) (5)

....

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The Foxcroft plan is not only a convenience, it is a necessity. It is a necessity for those who wish to live cheaply, for those who live at home, and for those who are absent part of the time from Cambridge. The Foxcroft club has outgrown its present quarters, and for other reasons cannot stay there. A hall seating 1000 would be none too big for a continuanc of its plan.

FOXCROFT.