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Upperclass Savages eat either at Thayer Hall, a college-run dining room, or in privately owned eating establishments along a Main Street. A cafeteria in Thayer costs an average of $7.70 a week, and the luxurious Colonial runs as high as $34 for a 60 meal ticket. This is hardly any lower than Harvard's system and would be higher if all the meals were not taken out in dinners and lunches...
...prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...
...main floor, light fell with scientifically controlled evenness through laminated glass skylights, which let in diffused sunlight by day, artificial sunlight by night. In the basement, a Dali dream of convoluted pipes and fans air-conditioned the whole building, from the soaring spaces of the rotunda to the tiled cafeteria where staff and public could snatch a sandwich between expeditions...
...additional advantage of letting members see what they are ordering, thus preventing considerable waste. This self-service plan takes on added significance when viewed in the light of a twenty-one meal rate which would be required for all House members. It has also been shown that if the cafeteria idea were adopted and all students in the Houses were required to take twenty-one meals a week the rate could be reduced from ten dollars to eight dollars a week. This plan would effect a savings of two dollars a week for fifty-one per cent of the House...
Substantial objections, however, are raised to the cafeteria plan. It would tend to destroy Mr. Harkness' concept of a "Dinner table education" as the whole meal process would be speeded up with the result that the dining room would lose much of its social character. Trays on the tables, and boys carrying food back and forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal...