Word: cafeteria
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Nothing has been heard of the replies to that circular letter sent to students some time ago in an attempt to discover why more men were not eating at Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. Perhaps the few men who still maintain interest in those eating places despaired of improvement and so did not trouble to reply. Or, perhaps the replies were unmentionable...
...Cafeteria, which has just closed, ends, one would judge, a not too profitable season, while the Dining Hall is serving something near one-fourth the number of men it served last year. If the management expects to reopen these restaurants next year, and to run them at a reasonable cost without loss, some improvement is necessary...
Criticism of the Cafeteria has been even more sharp. Men eat there only because of its location and its prices. The secondary quality of its foodstuffs, the poor and tasteless cooking, the very apparent inattention on the part of the staff and the student waiters to fundamental details of cleanliness, are such as only to be borne through the necessity of time and purse. And when for all this one pays only a trifle less than one would on the Square, the reasons for eating there disappear...
...ground level of this building and directly connected with the dormitories by covered passage, are the dining halls. They consist of a large room for the students, with a counter for cafeteria or self-service, although it is also arranged for waiters to serve the tables. The kitchen is on this same floor with its ice boxes, bake-shop, and stores...
...announcement was issued during the week by Mr. F. S. Mead '87, University Comptroller to the effect that the dwindling attendance at the Memorial Hall dining room and cafeteria might cause the discontinuance of the restaurant service upheld there by the University. This statement followed an investigation made by the CRIMSON, which resulted in the discovery that 2175 men at Harvard eat at quick lunches and food shops...