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Byzantine building in rose, ochre and brown stone, with two domed wings and high in the centre a Jesus Tower, visible for miles. In this plant are reading, writing, game and music rooms, an auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeteria, trade school, all with the most modern equipment. One room is an exact replica of the one in London in which George Williams, dry goods clerk, helped found the first Y. M. C. A. in 1844. The Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Julian's Way | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...students in Paris. The building will be of a grandeur hitherto unexampled in its field, for the site is the Chateaubriand Estate and its architect will be taken from a present employment in Rheims Cathedral. Every feature of American luxury has representation, including the swimming pool and the ubiquitous cafeteria, in what is apparently a very thorough and a very sincere attempt to transplant the homeland with its virtues and its faults intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER LITTLE AMERICA | 4/12/1933 | See Source »

...effort to conceal its identity the House even renounced such an abortive distinction as the Kirkland tower. Definite, but not startling, is its situation on both sides of Mill Street, between Plympton and Bow, conveniently near to the Weeks foot bridge, and to the delights of the Business School Cafeteria. Perhaps the only truly unusual thing about the House is its much discussed, trapezoidally shaped, and subtly concealed dining hall, graced at House dinners by the stuffed bunny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT HOUSE | 3/14/1933 | See Source »

...Cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...Chicago, while Barbara Chick was filling cafeteria sugar bowls, two gunmen came in, demanded the money from the cash register. Said she, "Get it yourself. This place is cafeteria style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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