Word: basement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter. He is followed by a tutor wanting to know if the Senior Common Room bar has been restocked since "all those foreigners drank it up this summer." He gives the boy his change and tells the tutor there are several boxes of liquor in the entry basement...
...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies (since sold to bargain-hunting undergraduates), oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from "a well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and some rooms of the CRIMSON completed this floor. Above in the hall now used as freshman dining rooms, was a living room. An athletes' training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled...
...Union, cries of pain were heard in the Yard. Freshmen rallied to the defense of their Great Dining Hall, vigorously extolling its importance and proclaiming there were those who love it. One wing has been completely expropriated by the Varsity Club and the band has the part of the basement left by the kitchens, but for the freshman the rest of the building provides a fragile security against the outside world and Harvard. Security to the freshman, no matter how illusory, is a most precious commodity...
...deliver a series of five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The $750 fee was a great help to the hard-pressed doctor, and the warm reception, he later noted, "encouraged my self-respect in every way." Now a collection of 13 letters discovered in the basement of Clark's library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone replied to Hall's suggestion that Prize Disciple Carl Jung's bitter split...