OXFORD ECONOMIES
CHEAPER MEALS ARRANGED LONDON, December 18. Oxford University, once regarded as the resold of the wealthy, is now economising thoroughly, as business houses and undergraduates are cutting expenditure in cvery_ direction, not only because lavishness is out of fashion, but because they do not possess the money. Merton College took the lead. A bursar, noticing that many undergradates wore applying for advances and seeking to postpone payment of bills, called a meeting and proposed various economics, including the renunciation of dances, bump suppers, and plays. . These suggestions wore enthusiastically received, whereupon the authorities inaugurated cheap teas and a throe-course dinner for Is 9d, whicji have proved so popular that ncany all undergraduates arc taking advantage of them. , . The economics arc saving many LJO a year. Other colleges have formed a committee of economy experts to devise reductions in expenditures
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Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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141OXFORD ECONOMIES Evening Star, Issue 20987, 29 December 1931, Page 7
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