Page:Samuel F. Batchelder - Bits of Harvard History (1924).pdf/129

 their parents a third part of their charges as the students of endless distractions.”

Dunster’s concern at the lack of a “screen’’ shows again the astonishing exactness with which it was thought necessary to follow the English model. In the long dining-rooms of the transatlantic colleges the screen extended across the lower end, near the entrance. It was often beautifully carved, and sometimes supported a musicians’ gallery. The space behind the screen was “the entry,” where the waiters and servants did their work. Here the food was received from the buttery-hatch and portioned out, hands and dishes were washed at a “lavatory” or sink, and doors led into the kitchen, the buttery, the pantry, and occasionally into adjoining buildings or cloisters; so that the entry was quite a thoroughfare. We must remember that a separate