Word: cafeteria
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With the same success that Professor Baker had, the manager of the Harvard Dining Halls for several years fought to have the ancient and overequipped Memorial Hall abandoned. In its place he desired an up to date, first-class cafeteria with a modern restaurant. He proposed that the college erect a two-story building, on or near Harvard Square. The ground floor was to be a cafeteria, similar to the Splendid, the second floor was to be a well furnished restaurant. His efforts were rewarded by refusals, coupled with the recommendation that the cafeteria, which was disliked by the President...
...State Supreme Court. Came also the Amherst trustees, headed by George A. Plimpton of Manhattan; came recipients of honorary degrees; came scores and scores of alumni. Came also spectators to see the Amherst-Williams football game. So many were they all that Pratt Gymnasium became, perforce, a cafeteria; the locker room, a kitchen; the squash courts,, a dormitory...
...district. Its main waiting room contains 26,500 sq. ft.; other waiting rooms account for 22,000 sq. ft. more. The building proper is eight stories in height; in addition to the general offices of the Pennsylvania and the Milwaukee, the structure will house a dining room, lunch counter, cafeteria, tea room, barber shop, beauty parlor, fruit stand, tobacco shop, book store-and last but not least, a two-cell jail, a chapel and a hospital...
...your editorial this morning (June 11) entitled "Soup, Fish and Efficiency," you presented a vivid picture of the horrors of Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. I have eaten at the Cafeteria for two years and find your picture overdrawn. I do not think the food is of "secondary quality," otherwise I should not have stayed so long. The cooking I do not consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste...
...atmosphere of the Cafeteria is certainly more pleasant than that of these lunches. One is surrounded by students entirely, many of them friends and acquaintances. The noise of clashing china and shouted orders to the kitchen is not so deafening, as at a certain large restaurant in the Square, as to make conversation impossible. The food is plain, but good. I think the real reason for the unpopularity of the Memorial eating-places is that the food is plain, not that it is poor. I am afraid the sedentary life of a student takes away most of the appetite...