Communication

(The CRIMSON invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

In your editorial this morning (June 11) entitled "Soup, Fish and Efficiency," you presented a vivid picture of the horrors of Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. I have eaten at the Cafeteria for two years and find your picture overdrawn. I do not think the food is of "secondary quality," otherwise I should not have stayed so long. The cooking I do not consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste among its members. The staff this year has seemed to me courteous and efficient. While a large-scale eating place of course has an occasional lapse of cleanness at least the Cafeteria maintains a higher standard than the coain lunches of the Square.

The atmosphere of the Cafeteria is certainly more pleasant than that of these lunches. One is surrounded by students entirely, many of them friends and acquaintances. The noise of clashing china and shouted orders to the kitchen is not so deafening, as at a certain large restaurant in the Square, as to make conversation impossible. The food is plain, but good. I think the real reason for the unpopularity of the Memorial eating-places is that the food is plain, not that it is poor. I am afraid the sedentary life of a student takes away most of the appetite and makes us long for highly garnished and seasoned dishes instead of the plain fare that is so much better for the health. If the morning had been passed mowing the lawns of the Yard, instead of studying. I think no one would complain of the food at Memorial Cafeteria.

As for the management, I know nothing of how it should be done, or of how it is done in this case, and I imagine the CRIMSON editor knows as little, so let us leave criticism of this branch to the proper authorities. ROBERT W. WHITE '25.