Word: cafeteria
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...recent statement that over 2300 Harvard students eat their meals outside of the various dining halls maintained exclusively for members of the University, comes the announcement from the office of Mr. F. S. Mead '87. University Comptroller, that dwindling attendance at the Memorial Hall dining room and the Memorial cafeteria may cause the restaurant service now being rendered in Memorial Hall by the University to be seriously altered or even discontinued altogether...
This investigation was made by the CRIMSON following a statement by Mr. F. S. Mead, University Comptroller, to the effect that there had been an amazing slump in the number of men now eating at the Memorial Hall dining room and the Memorial cafeteria, the two restaurants for Harvard students maintained by the University. Since the opening of College this year, but 350 men, on an average have taken their meals in the Memorial Hall dining room, while less than 300 men have been regularly served at the cafeteria...
...these men eat at the public restaurants and quick lunches around the Square? Mr. George S. Smith, the manager of the Georgian Cafeteria, which is the largest of these private establishments, declares that even on his busiest days he is unable to accomodate more than 400 people at a single meal...
...allowed to forget that "You are old, Father William", and furthermore that there have been ravages as well as advances during the aging process. Dean Donham, in an interesting study of how the times have changed, numbers among the ravages the introduction of the fearful cafeteria. Granting that this soul-killing institution does devastate many a good, home-bred stomach, there be defenders who may well argue that it is better to snatch and run at a cafeteria, than to snatch elsewhere and not be inclined or able to run. The pre-one-arm-chair days have not an unsmirched...
After all if the doctrine of heredity holds water, the present cafeteria "hath had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar." As a proof, not much after 1636 one finds that "Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote...