Dining Halls to Close During Spring Recess

All House dining halls will be closed during the spring vacation, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. The Union will serve meals during the two weekends, but students who remain in Cambridge over the week beginning April 1 will have to eat in Kresge Dining Hall, at the Business School.

The arrangement marks a break with past years, when one House dining hall or the Union was open during the entire vacation. Students this year will have to pay for individual meals with coupons. They will not be given the choice of signing on for board at a weekly rate, as in the past.

Few Students Eat Here During Recess

C. Graham Hurlburt, Jr., assistant director of dining halls, said yesterday that the number of students eating at Harvard during the vacation had grown too small to justify keeping open a dining room. He estimated that between 150 and 350 students ate at the Union during the 1962 spring recess. Hurlburt explained that the 400 dining hall employees will participate in a vacation workshop conducted by three Cornell Hotel School professors and designed to increase dining hall efficiency.

Hurlburt said he did not know whether the new policy would be continued during future vacations. It was proposed for this year by the dining hall department and passed by the Committee on Houses.

The Union will be used on weekends because more students come to meals at that time than during the week. Hurlburt said that he expected most students would make the quarter-mile trip to Kresge three times a day, although a few might prefer to eat in the Square.

Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said that the plan would not cause much inconvenience. "Students will have to take that horrible walk to Kresge," he said, "but now that everyone is doing 50-mile hikes, this will fit right into the picture."

Radcliffe, as usual, will serve no meals to students who remain in the dormitory during the recess.