NEWLY APPOINTED DIETITIAN STRIVES TO SUIT UNDERGRADUATE GOURMETS

If you notice an extra sprig of parsley of your potatoes or a red cherry in your grape fruit, you will know that Harvard's first dietitian, Miss Ruth E. Trickett, is jazzing up the menus.

Appointed at the first of this month in response to a Student Council report, published last spring, which attacked the methods of serving food here, Miss Trickett has spent the last few days visiting the various dining halls and kitchens, mastering the fine points of how to serve palatable meals at reasonable prices.

Asks Suggestions

Miss Trickett has planned meals for an untold number of people since she graduated from Simmons College in 1921. She said yesterday that she soon hoped to find out how to please her student customers. "I would very much like to have the boys feel that they can come up anytime to my office in Lehman Hall to tell me their suggestions for menus."

At Barnard College where she was manager of dining halls until her four year term expired this fall, Miss Trickett could "meet all the girls and find out what their likes and dislikes were. Everything is very different here."

Since her appointment to the University staff. Miss Trickett has made an exploratory trip to the Princeton. Columbia, Yale, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's restaurants. "Each one has its unique features, and my job is to use the best methods of each system. I am very much impressed by the establishment here. I think Harvard has a fine staff."