Word: cafeteria
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...solution to the problem is obvious. It does not lie in the cafeteria approach to higher learning in which every student must consume a little of each basic food group. This is supposed to produce a well-rounded mind, but a close look at the "well-rounded minds" thus formed will find them marred by holes. The college needs mandatory courses, taught by the best professors, which will provide an understanding of the important ideas and values of our civilization...
...bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...
Robert D. Putnam, the department's chairman, called the old program "too fragmented," noting that students had the liberty to choose to specialize in "a cafeteria of 20 or more particular fields...
...everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
Beneath the booth entire ballrooms and hundreds of Square-free! of floor space have been converted into press offices, souvenir stands and cafeteria style restaurants. Entrepreneurs offer "Convention '84" sweatshirts for $22, T-shirts for $13, and posters...