Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a man takes out a volume at 10.00 P. M., he usually studies it for at least two hours before going to bed, so that he does not feel in the mood to get up early the next morning for the sole purpose of returning it on time. If he takes it out on Saturday, he may wish to go into Boston for dinner on Sunday--and so he faces the difficulty of having it returned to the library between one and two o'clock on that afternoon. Of course room-mates are useful as messenger boys...
...easily be installed somewhere on the outside of Widener into which all books could be returned at any time, whether the library were open, or not. Besides saving students a daily climb of the main staircase, it would allow them to return books in the evening before going to bed, or on Sunday morning before leaving college for a visit to relatives in town; and it would save the library authorities much petty annoyance from those who are late in returning books...
...college man missed an overcoat from an auto which he had left in front of the dormitory. On the same day a rug was taken. Both these losses were reported to the watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge, but that...
...fifth and last scene represents the end of Man's career, reflecting the utter confusion that attends his downfall. The two windows now twisted drunkenly stand out in silver draped with large swirling folds of blue gauze. A bed, oddly out of proportion, is seen in silhouette at the left, with a misshapen fireplace to the right, the whole combination reflecting to a remarkable degree the mood in which the play closes...
Apparently, if Harvard is a typical example, American colleges are rapidly becoming melting pots within "the melting pot" and their function has changed from local to national education. Or, if we return to our pansy bed, it has become a mass of varying color such as might be expected from a government package of experimental seed...