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To the Editors of the Crimson:

As a member of the Randall Hall Association I venture to express my regret that the letter printed on the backs of the lunch menus on Saturday was lacking in dignity and that it contained expressions which you very properly left unpublished.

The point mentioned by "Determination" as to the posting of the price lists of goods purchased is left entirely unanswered. Such publication was ordered by the Foxcroft Club but the order was deliberately disregarded. Until some explanation of this is given I do not think the auditor is justified in saying that "Randall Hall is run entirely by students of Harvard University." The statement that the buying at Randall is as economical as that of the stewards at Memorial and the best Boston hotels is of little value unless we are told on what lines the comparison is made. No list being published, we are unable to tell what prices are being paid.

If we are prevented by lack of knowledge from appreciating the merits of the question as to the steward's salary, the Board have only themselves to blame. No one wishes to deal in a niggardly fashion with the steward, but it is to be regretted that the auditor makes no mention of any plan like that at Memorial by which the steward's remuneration is in part dependent on the lowness of the prices. Have the board of directors ever considered it? It would be interesting to know if in comparing the steward's salary with that of the Memorial steward's any account has been taken of the great privilege enjoyed by the former of running a restaurant with high prices throughout the Summer School. Furthermore, the steward and board are to be congratulated on reducing expenses by 150 dollars a week. But if, after the stoppage of so serious a leakage, prices still remain high, there would seem to be a possibility that other leakages as yet undetected may still exist. If the board tell us that improvement is impossible, it is tantamount to saying that the Randall bequest was something of a white elephant, because many of us were better off at Foxcroft last year. Personally I have ceased to nurse the delusion that board can be obtained at Randall at a rate appreciably lower than elsewhere. Many men keep their bills down to the low figure quoted in the Catalogue only because of the frequency with which they take meals elsewhere.

In conclusion I may remind the auditor that no charge more serious than that of incapacity has been preferred. The exuberance of his language is not reassuring. L.L.G.B.