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PAY AS YOU EAT

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Characteristic of the little torments which University officials invent to rack the pocketbook of thriftless students is the requirement that House members forego not less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses.

This annoyance is so unnecessary that only the clinging tendrils of red tape can make it exist. There is no reason why the length of the period during which an absentee may "sign off" for dining hall charges must be measured with sabbatical strictness. It is a petty injustice not to allow charges to be dropped for a shorter period, so that the tired student may rest from Friday to Tuesday in the bosom of his family in New Hampshire.

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