Word: cafeteria
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...some held further that it was not within the function of the contemporary Harvard to take any formal stand whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly, without carrying this belief into practice through one particular religion. Supporters of this latter view feared that without an institutional example, students would cease to be concerned about religion, and become agnostic through apathy rather than conviction...
...white cap. Wearing his new cap, he paid a call on International Business Machines Co. President Thomas Watson Jr., toured the IBM plant at San Jose, watched a thinking man's brain as it chattered through its electronic paces, lined up for lunch in the company cafeteria. There, for the first time he uttered a telling sentence that upset a hoary party line: "We want to have friendship with the American people and the American Government-and I draw no line of distinction between the people and the Government of the United States...
Food sales at Harkness have been decreasing steadily for the last five years while costs have been rising. The cafeteria expects a $27,000 loss this year...
Holden said he was "impressed" by the attitudes of the University officials with whom he has discussed the problem. He said he believed the changes are designed not only to enable the cafeteria to operate in the black, but also to serve graduate studens better than at present...
Furthermore, not all Dudleymen even bother to grace Dudley's door-step, and many of those who do regard it as merely a coat-rack and cafeteria. The place lacks tone--participation is erratic. The result: an athletic program that is "good, but difficult to support adequately," or as another commuter put it more accurately, "good on paper, but lacking in spirit...