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Professional waiters will be employed this year in the dining-room of the Harvard Union. For the past three years the work has been done by student waiters, but the management believes the change will be economical. Breakfasts will cost 30 to 65 cents, luncheon, 65 cents, and dinner, 90 cents.
Play-by-play accounts of all Harvard football games will be transmitted by the Westinghouse station of New England (WBZ-WBZA), thanks to a special line from the press stands on the field to the transmitter in Boston.
University authorities have developed a plan to provide employment--mainly administrative tasks--for students during the business depression. Between 200 and 300 men will be able to earn an amount equivalent to that earned by waiters in the House dining halls.
Harvard's Naval Training School has graduated its first class--524 officers.
The Harvard Club-Orient Division reports that 15 members are enrolled in the club of Hangchow, China; its president is the president of National Chekiang University. The most recent meeting was a tea party for members and their wives and elder daughters, followed by boating.
Although the admissions committee acknowledges that "forced commuting" is undesirable, 95 students have been admitted with the proviso that they live at home or in approved Cambridge housing. The committee's newsletter also notes the continuing decline in the proportion of public-school boys entering the College: they will make up exactly 50 percent of the incoming freshman class.
As Harvard's football and soccer teams go down to defeat across the Charles, members of GUTS, the College's Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society, squidge and squop their way to a 23-12 victory over Holy Cross to win first place in NUTS, the National Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Society. (The victors later appeared on I've Got a Secret and stumped the panel.)
The new Harvard Center for Research in Children's Television, funded by the Markle Foundation with administrative support from the University and the Children's Television Workshop, will explore the effects of visual media on children.