Word: cafeteria
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...group of 500 eaters, declared to be essential to the success of any Common dining hall by the Comptroller's Office, can be recruited from a roving force of 6000. The Harvard Union has demonstrated that a University Dining hall based on voluntary attendance can succeed in spite of cafeteria competition. The Union attracts only a portion of the nomad horde; the majority wanders, at large inadequately and irregularly food...
...Every meal should have its social aspect," he continued. "There is no better place for men to talk matters over then at a dinner-table. With the present fashion of taking a hurried meal at a cafeteria, such intercourse and discussion is entirely eliminated from the menu, and young men in college are the losers thereby. Remembrances of table conversations should be among the pleasantest of college memories, and every college man should have an eating place where he will have the opportunity of leisurely luncheon talk with his friends...
...Memorial Hall provided such a place, and I understand that the reason that the cafeteria in the Hall was given up was because the students objected to the stereotyped diet, went elsewhere for their meals, and the proposition was no longer a paying one for the University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife...
...welded the college more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...
...certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf of Harvard custom...