Word: cafeteria
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...cafateria with his virgin mealcheck in his hand is frequently at a loss to decide where to turn for his sustenance, which part of the goodly array spread before him to tackle first. So it is with the Vagabond this Wednesday morning. Wandering at will in the vast intellectual cafeteria that is Harvard, he finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself, it is with trepidation that he undertakes...
...Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
This extra cafeteria department would overcome the one objection to a Common dining hall, the fact that a long period of eating in one place, no matter what the variety of the bill of fare, becomes monotonous. Then, too, students not desiring a hearty meal, could procure a few special dishes at such a place...
...most important requirement for this sort of dining hall, in my opinion, is permission by the College to let patrons sign slips for their meals, as at present is the practice at the Harvard Union. The same rule, of course should apply to the cafeteria. If it were found necessary for students to eat at least 17 meals a week at their tables in the class dining halls in order to make these branches financially feasible. I am sure that an arbitrary regulation to this effect would not meet with any objection. A discount should be made on this number...
Such a hall, capably managed, if need be by a non-University organization, providing the important accessories to table d'hote fare enumerated above, offerings variety in its connected cafeteria, and alert to maintain a high standard both in the cooking and original quality of its food, is the sole satisfactory way for Harvard to wipe out its present dietetic defeat...