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Education, in the last analysis, is largely a matter of carbohydrates. In recognition of this principle it has been suggested that the University establish some sort of a cafeteria, where weary denizens of the House Plan can refresh the jaded spirit without being involved in fruitless exercise. Already such an institution flourishes on the other bank of the Charles, catering to the isolated appetites of the Business School, and there is no reason to believe that an undergraduate is in any way a less valiant trencherman. If the University could run an eating place of this type, open, perhaps, from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE URGE TO EAT | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

...John ("Aces") Mazza, 20, petty gangster, was murdered in front of an eastside Manhattan cafeteria. In his pocket was found a printed invocation: St. Joseph, Patron Of A Happy Death, Protect Me. ¶The body of John Franzione, who with four companions killed a detective last July and later squealed on them, was found on a Bronx refuse heap. ¶Two detectives followed two gunmen into a saloon on Lexington Avenue. The gunmen held the place up, shot it out with the detectives. Fatalities: Gunman Albert Checchia and Detective Christopher W. Shueing, whose father received the Congressional Medal of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In New York | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...apartments with kitchenettes on Chauncy Street, the erection of Law dormitories would be no especial benefit, but to the more impecunious students, who come to Cambridge from distant parts and are forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary hash slinging cafeteria, such houses would be a godsend. Building sites and money are the difficulties to be overcome. One can only pray for the appearance of some benefactor like Harkness, Baker, and Vanderbilt to provide buildings for the Law School worthy of its importance in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE FOR THE LAW | 10/22/1930 | See Source »

...fact that breakfast is at present the least attended meal in the Freshman Dormitories indicates that an extension of this hour is very desirable. The rapid cafeteria-like service promised by the proposed buffet system should also increase the popularity of the House move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL HOURS | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...Dining Halls, in addition to catering for the Freshman Class, served an average of 1622 meals per day in the upperclassmen's cafeteria, at an average cost to the patron of 44 6 cents per meal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Treasurer's Report of Yale Shows Endowment is Smaller Than Harvard's--Alumni Raise $9,000,000 Since 1890 | 10/10/1929 | See Source »

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