BOARD GOES UP

The Board raised the board. The Trustees voted to increase Thayer Hall and Stell Hall meal-ticket prices for next year by $25. This will raise the annual cost to $525.

The action, the Trustees reported to the student body, was made necessary by the rising costs of both food and labor. College Business Manager Richard W. Olmsted '32 noted that the increase is "actually a rise that has built up over the past four years."

Olmsted was responding to The Danmouth editors who in turn were responding to letter-writers who found in the notice of the board increase the impulse to write out their dissatisfaction with "mystery meat," "mystery pies," and other dishes known to other generations by other names but still a traditional part of institutional living.

Olmsted went on to point out that while the cost of food and labor had increased steadily year after year, the board fee had remained constant. Out of a discussion with the Undergraduate Council's food committee last spring, Olmsted noted, came more choices in desserts and salads, greater variety of menu, the opening of another food line on Topside, and family-style service for freshmen.

Even with the increase Dartmouth averages about $50 lower than the other Ivy League schools. Other Ivies require all on-campus residents to eat at school- owned dining facilities. Freshmen at Dartmouth traditionally dine together. Sophomores were added in 1957..