Word: cafeteria
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Three boys coming from the Garden Street graveyard. Young men of slight stature, who might, given sufficient provocation, carry a fork from the school cafeteria and extort dimes in the bathroom. A girl glides by and three heads snap with the comic suddenness of recalcitrant window shades. "Fine bod," they say behind their hands and pass on to higher conquest. They stop to dispute, and not knowing the civilized use of velleities, fall to pushing. "Hic Rhodus, hic salta," cries one. They just shove him again, which is clearly what he deserves...
Harvard freshmen are not being allowed to eat at Dudley House--now in newly-renovated Lehman Hall-because House officials don't want Dudley's commuter and extension students to be crowded out of the cafeteria...
Even without freshmen, the new cafeteria has been overcrowded at lunchtime since it opened for business Wednesday. According to sources in the Master's office, a more pressing problem might arise around 9 p.m. every night if freshman were permitted to "drop in" for a snack just when extension students were leaving...
...past few years, Cliffies have been allowed to eat in the graduate cafeteria as an alternative to having lunch in their own dorms. They are given an allotment of 80 cents per day, which was ample in the days when hamburgers were 30 cents, cottage cheese a nickel, and ice cream and fruit, only a dime...
Some 15 customers didn't budge until a squad car pulled up at 4:15 and two policemen ordered them to leave. Another policemen stood outside the cafeteria until it re-opened at about 4:55. Then, grumbling under his breath about the policy, he marched down to the Waldorf for breakfast...