Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid the rush hour. In the case of supper, while the line is at its heaviest when the doors open at 5:30 o'clock, the rush has been created by just such an attempt, on a universal basis, at arriving when nobody else is eating But at breakfast, when the peak is at 8:30 o'clock, lines could be shortened considerably if the tendency to get up as late as possible was overcome by a hardly few. Similarly, lunch lines are at their longest at 12:15 and 1:15 o'clock, directly after class breaks, while lines...
Chief among these is the preparation of new check-off-lists, upon which each man will be assigned a number, eliminating the bottleneck producing procedure of signing for meals. Commencement of classes will also tend to stagger at least the breakfast and luncheon lines, and the opening of the new graduate dining hall in Vansert Hall Monday eases the burden still further...
...within the university, the atmosphere is different. One of the best things about prewar Harvard was its sense of leisure, the conception of "education over the breakfast table," the notion that by the unhurried exchange of good conversation and ideas with his fellows a man could learn much that he would never get out of books. Now Cambridge is gripped by urgency, a hurried and un-Harvardlike anxiety to make up for lost time...
...hours of service are $ to 9:30 o'clock for breakfast, 12 to 1:30 for lunch, and 5:30 to 6:30 for dinner...
...University, will be a relatively carefree soul--after he is moved from his public berth in the Indoor Athletic Building, after he is told that he doesn't have to commute if he doesn't want to, and even though he may have to sweat out a breakfast chow line...