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"To the Editors of the Crimson:

There is but one argument in favor of the adoption of the student waiter system at Memorial Hall, that it would assist in giving employment to poor students: Those who object to the system on sentimental grounds have been sneered at as victime of snobbishness and prejudges. Now, if the experience of five years has taught me anything, the Harvard student is little open to the charge

of snobbery. Here, as every where else, men are generally rated-at what they are worth, whether rich or poor. No man is scorned simply because of poverty, or respected. for his wealth. alone. Nor is "menial service" a title to disrespect; of that the Foxcroft club is ample witness. I boarded there for two years, and certainly no men were more respected than those who waited on table.

But to reason from the Foxcroft Club to Memorial Hall is to ignore the most fundamental differences. In the first place, the Foxcroft Club is composed almost entirely of men Who are reducing their expenses to a minimum, and are certain to be considerate of those serving them. But at Memorial the boarders are from the most various classes in the University. Without the slightest intention of rudeness on-either side, the position of student waiters there might become extremely uncomfortable. Class distinctions impossible at the Foxcroft Club would arise

Yet more serious are the practical difficulties of the scheme. In Memorial Hall are fifty-six tables, requiring, under the present membership, the constant attendance of at least seventy five Waiter. The times of meals comprise nearly five hours. One student would hardly care to wait more than half that time. Thus we need a force of at least one hundred and fifty students. Is it not almost impossible that so large a number could be found?

Again, the expenses of the hall would be unavoidably raised by the change. The present waiters do the dish washing and table setting:-both of which, in case students were employed, would have to be done by special servants. Then no student could be expected to work for the price now paid to the waiters.

And, after all, is a large supply of ill-paid, unskilled work necessarily a boon to poor students. To me it seems that a man with enough ability to get into Harvard should be able to get work for which he will be paid more than twenty cents an hour.

If there are these practical difficulties, added to the almost universal opposition to the change among the students, - I have not yet met one who favored it -

is the adoption of student waiters at Memorial advisable?

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