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...dining hall in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the present site of the Boylston Chemical Laboratory, with table d'hote service in three of the four halls, and a cafeteria-grill in the fourth, is the suggestion of A.H. Harlow Jr, '29, in the following essay, which won the third prize in the recent Crimson essay contest. Capable management, under a non-University direction, if necessary, is declared a panacea for most of the present dietetic ills...
...central intersection area, where it would be most convenient for service and for efficient handling of the food. Three of the halls branching out from this refectory department could be respectively devoted to the three upper classes of the College. The fourth wing could be converted into a combination cafeteria and grill, staying open later than the other branches of the establishment and serving a greater variety of food for men temporarily tired of table d'hote service...
Nevertheless, the limitations of cafeteria, eating have become increasingly apparent. Overcrowding and hurrying are as unpleasant as gloom. Convenient, it must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias resolves itself into the pork-chop-and-French-friend-potatoes type of malnutrition. Irregular hours have proved injurious to health. And prices have gone up:one cafeteria, for instance, has increased the price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead...
Here another counter-man, who refused to divulge his name, also spoke of the leisurely social practices of the cafeteria habitues. "They come in there," declared the Georgian Ganymede, who wore a white apron and cap, "just loaded down with books and papers, and get their lunch and make a regular library out of the place, spreading it thick all over the tables. And at night, there's a regular bunch of night-ows who stay here and do everything but hoot. I don't know anything about how fast they eat, but they do make a slow and sociable...
...cooperation between university administrators and students can do nothing more beneficial to themselves and their public than to study the reaction of the administration at Harvard to the suggestion of the CRIMSON that it was high time for club tables and systematized eating to take the place of cafeteria philandering in the life of both graduate and undergraduate...