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A new plan for a dining hall, containing all the essential points of the two schemes previously proposed, is published in this morning's paper. The Board of Directors of Memorial present this to the students of the University as being practicable and feasible. The provision that one portion of the hall shall be devoted to a system similar to the one now in vogue at Memorial, would give to the six hundred signers of the first petition all that they requested. Another clause provides that a second room shall be conducted on the ala carte plan. This will accommodate all those who are in Cambridge for a portion of the day only, and allows one every facility either for high or for low priced board. The only important difference between this and the Corporation's scheme is that one is not given the privilege of combining the table d'hote and a la carte plans for a single meal, or of choosing at will one or the other. Experienced judges in Boston and Cambridge have pronounced such a system thoroughly impracticable, as it allows no way of knowing beforehand how much to provide for the regular boarders, since they may on all occasions change from one plan to the other without notification. It does not seem to us that such a privilege is at all necessary or that it should stand as an obstacle in the adoption of this new proposal. The University needs without a doubt a second dining hall. The Memorial Hall directors have hit upon something which promises well and is acknowledged to be practicable. It is a last effort to secure this most urgent need and therefore the members of the University who are affected one way or another by the outcome of this discussion are earnestly asked to consider the new plan carefully and if possible to subscribe to it.

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