Word: caff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed. He also ran the halls successfully and well. But the President still disliked the cafeteria. The fact that the "caff" was too small to feed the number of students desiring to eat there made no difference. Despite the fact that every year a waiting list, numbered into the hundreds, while Memorial Hall was begging for customers, it was decided that the cafeteria be closed. The burning of Massachusetts Hall afforded an excuse of expediency. The college needed the room for offices. Here was a chance to discontinue the cafeteria, and to make Memorial Hall conform to the ideals...
...cafeteria used Memorial Hall kitchen. But serving both "Mem" and the "Caff" the kitchen was utilized up to its minimum capacity, at least. Instead of moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups...