Word: cafeteria
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...send insane patients into a cafeteria...
...class has been so far diffused that the class numeral has nearly ceased to signify anything but a date of graduation, the old student-room life has all but disappeared, and the club table, whether in Memorial or a private boarding house, is in large part superseded by the cafeteria, save for a necessarily limited number of student clubs. In many respects, doubtless, Harvard today offers more to the undergraduate than in the eighties, but as a price of growth has lost some of the values which smaller colleges have preserved...
...instruction are at present worse in our colleges than anywhere else in our whole educational system," President Glenn Frank, of the University of Wisconsin said in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "The elective system has changed our colleges into something that reminds me strongly of an intellectual cafeteria For as in a cafeteria there is nothing to guide the inexperienced in his choice of food; he should have a skilled dietitian to see that he doesn't eat all proteins or all starches. The average Freshman who comes to our colleges is utterly incapable of choosing the courses...
...symbol of the confusion which has befallen education and society alike with the increasing complexity of civilization. Unable itself to sift the mass of new knowledge the university shifts to the student the onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching, to underclassmen at least, a single subject which has wholeness, and the meaning and interest which flow therefrom...
...time included among it mass of mongrel terms the phrase, "Three a day". And to both actor and audience it means that labor of love which sends the embryonic Eddie Cantor out in front for fifteen minutes three successive times between luncheon and the final visit to his particular cafeteria for coffee, a Western, and the "Billboard". To the faculty and student body of Harvard College it probably means little or nothing. The three a week is alone vital to them...