Education: Harvard Houses

Down upon the dining students of Harvard's Lowell House stare portraits of poet James Russell Lowell, President emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Astronomer Percival Lowell. The dining students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The...

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