Word: cafeteria
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Four years ago, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts was little more than a musical cafeteria where its 50 students could nibble at courses as they pleased. Established as a profit-making corporation, it had not made a profit in decades; it did not own a typewriter and did not really need one because its director could not afford a secretary...
...places were assessed for $2,100,000, and taxes were $62,000 a year. Instead, the corporation turned over both mansions, on a 21-year rent-free lease, to the New York School of Social Work of Columbia University. The big kitchen would be turned into a cafeteria, and the art gallery into a lecture hall...
While this voluminous dossier was being assembled, Ecker and Mrs. Brine spent several days at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, of which Oppenheimer is the head. They came away with enough information to fill a 57-Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave...
...slips entitle a student to 47 cents worth of food in the Radcliffe cafeteria if she is unable to return to her dormitory for luncheon...
...students will be admitted to the Radcliffe cafeteria during the meeting except for those having classes...