Waldorf Manager Enters Dietetic Discussion--Cites Cornell and Yale Success in Creating Comestible Student Comfort

Proof that Harvard is not the only college in the country to encounter difficulty in providing its students with proper comestibles was afforded yesterday by F. H. Roth Division Manager of the Waldorf System, Mr. Roth affirmed that Cornell, similarly confronted by the eating situation six years ago, solved the problem nicely by constructing a huge common dining-hall that accommodates 1200 men at each meal.

Not only has this commissary plan proved satisfactory, efficient, and comfortable, but it has welded the college more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes.

Yale, too, said Mr. Roth, has seen and conquered its gastronomical crisis. The Eli eaters receive food in a common dining-hall; they have menus prepared by experts. All the cooking is attended to by feminine hands. Yale is now content, but two years ago it seethed with anti-lunch room sentiment. A dyspeptic group of agitators successfully raised their voices. The result is historic. The lunch rooms of New Haven stand empty, deserted are the purveyors of hot frankforts.

"If Harvard is puzzled by the commissary problem," Mr. Roth said to a CRIMSON reporter, "the industrial division of Waldorf Incorporated will gladly offer the services of one of its representatives to study the situation and offer a solution. I do not mean that we intend to enter the CRIMSON contest but that we would like to have on expert on feeding problems offer his opinion.

"We serve millions of meals a year, have our own commissary, buy our own supplies, and are thoroughly familiar with eating problems. We have been able to help colleges before with suggestions in regard to dining halls and would like to enter the lists against the Harvard problem. But we don't write essays."