Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important factor in setting the General Examination schedule has been the necessity for getting grades worked out in time for the mid-January meetings of the Faculty, Board of Overseers, and the Corporation, which note degrees and honors to the graduating students. These meetings were orginally slated for around January 15, which some-what cramped the time allotted for correcting the Generals; History, Government, and Economics were undoubtedly justified in picking an early date under these conditions. But now the three all-important meetings have been pushed up towards the end of the month...
Unfortunately for the club, Fernandez hangs out only in Mexico, and a ghost-catching expedition can't start after him until summer. Until then, the members are looking around Boston for their creaking doors and floating skulls...
...teacher moved into that house last year and almost immediately started seeing strange forms. "They centered around the stairs," she told one of the club members. "Twice I saw a figure hovering there, and I was afraid to go upstairs...
Until it hears of new inner sanctums around Boston, the group is simply reading about spooks. Members have access to special Widener stacks, where they spend several days translating old German and Spanish writings. The manuscripts explain every phase of ghostdom--how to hold black mass, how to catch a witch, and how to kill your maiden aunt with a handful of pins and some tobasco sauce...
...anyone knows a good haunted house around Boston, I wish he'd tell us about it," Liebman says. "We want a place with creaking doors, floating bodies, and muffled footsteps down the hall. We'd like to spend the night there...