Word: meals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every meal should have its social aspect," he continued. "There is no better place for men to talk matters over then at a dinner-table. With the present fashion of taking a hurried meal at a cafeteria, such intercourse and discussion is entirely eliminated from the menu, and young men in college are the losers thereby. Remembrances of table conversations should be among the pleasantest of college memories, and every college man should have an eating place where he will have the opportunity of leisurely luncheon talk with his friends...
...Memorial Hall provided such a place, and I understand that the reason that the cafeteria in the Hall was given up was because the students objected to the stereotyped diet, went elsewhere for their meals, and the proposition was no longer a paying one for the University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife...
...finally brought to court, charged with mis-management of College affairs. But the respect for him as a man of learning was such that he might have been acquitted had not the student body appeared, and with them, Banquolike, the grisly spectre of indigestion that sat at every meal in the College. The Faculty was convicted, fined and deposed, and the Eatonian reputation of the eating at the University has yet to be dispelled...
...students with proper comestibles was afforded yesterday by F. H. Roth Division Manager of the Waldorf System, Mr. Roth affirmed that Cornell, similarly confronted by the eating situation six years ago, solved the problem nicely by constructing a huge common dining-hall that accommodates 1200 men at each meal...
...this commissary plan proved satisfactory, efficient, and comfortable, but it has welded the college more closely together, probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...