Word: cafeteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union opened in 1901 as a club for all Harvard men. It charged a membership fee of $10 per year and was run like a restaurant, complete with waitresses. In 1923, Memorial Hall closed because of lack of patronage. Students once again turned to club and cafeteria eating...
...halls instead of the huge expanse of Memorial Hall. The Union offered club tables on its second floor to any group of twelve at $9 per week for 17 meals. A Crimson editorial, entitled "And Again, Food!" applauded this idea and wanted "systemized eating to take the place of cafeteria philandering." The Union's suggestion was followed up with a concerted drive to erect a new dining hall on Mt. Auburn Street, which failed when an insufficient number of students reported that they would cat there. Most people ate at clubs or were "eating round...
...Brandeis blueprint also calls for a streamlining of its old parklike campus overlooking the Charles River. The dissecting room of the Middlesex medical school has been made over into a cafeteria, a stable into a library and an animal hospital into a speech clinic. Last week, while it was finishing its new $500,000 science building, Brandeis was also making plans for a new $250,000 library and a $200,000 dormitory...
Whose Lead Quarter? The Best of Intentions is Joe's confession, not of his sins, but of his frustrations-the fights he backed out of, the infidelities unconsummated, the arguments with the salesman who tried to sell him a suit he didn't want and with the cafeteria cashier who refused to take back a lead quarter...
Elijah was a man lunching in a Manhattan sidestreet cafeteria. Day after day, Rowe found him eating there at noon, and for three weeks he returned to study each line and plane of the luncher's face. Artist and subject never exchanged a word. With his wife helping on the voluminous research needed for costumes and backgrounds, Painter Rowe worked steadily on his 32 illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words...