Oliver S. Winter '47 commented that students' standards tend to change.

"Frankly, it was good food then, but I would have eaten almost anything," Winter said of his own undergraduate years. "I guess I've gotten a bit more discriminating. The beef was wonderful."

Michael Miller, Harvard's head chef, said that the staff is using this week to familiarize Mayer with the campus.

"He is fairly well-acquainted with what we do down here. He's visited several times," Miller said. "He is impressed with the number of events we have this week."

According to Mayer, HDS will orchestrate 241 functions during Commencement Week--35 of which were held yesterday. The schedule "gets thicker and thicker" during the week, Mayer said.

Alums will eat in their former houses this week. This is the first year that all 12 house dining halls will be open during Commencement Week because it has been 25 years since the Radcliffe housing system merged with Harvard's.

In previous years, only the dining halls in the river houses were open