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Several first-years referred to the history of the rooms they will now occupy. Eli A. Silver '95, claiming that writer Henry David Thoreau had lived in Hollis Hall as an undergraduate, wondered aloud if he could charge admission if Thoreau's room turned...
Later, when several men shared a room and were allowed to remove their blindfolds, Anderson carried out a compulsive daily routine of cleaning, pacing the room, talking aloud. Keenan says, "Terry's a bit of a bulky and belligerent man" with "a voracious hunger for intellectual conversation." Anderson went on a hunger strike at least once. Keenan says Anderson took his ailments stoically, "for in truth all pain and illness were generally dismissed by our keepers, though they would eventually supply us with some form of antibiotics...
...they stood at the outer gate of the fair-tressed goddess, and within they heard Circe singing in a sweet voice, as she fared to and fro before the great web imperishable, such as is the handiwork of goddesses They cried aloud and called to her. And straightway she came forth and opened the shining doors and bade them in, and all went with her in their heedlessness . . . Now when she had given them the cup and they had drunk it off, presently she smote them with a wand, and in the sties of swine she penned them. So they...
THAT'S the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
Earl M. Phalen, a first-year student, read aloud a letter that...