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Creeping inflation now threatens to destroy perhaps the most cherished traditions of the Square. With its twenty-five cent minimum charge, Hayes-Bick has in effect dried the well-springs of the Cambridge Beat. Gone are the days of heartfelt gemutlichkeit over a cup of coffee, lasting sometimes 'til gray dawn. This action imperils also that welcome respite from the bombast of the lecture hall; even the non-bohemian, more conventional student will have to consider seriously the financial strain of the between-class coffee break. Waldorf's in its wishy-washy way, has compromised. It has adopted a minimum...
...student who has succumbed to his suicidal drives has established a pattern of avoiding his work. He may begin each term with a firm resolution to work and proceed to kill the semester reading irrelevant books, writing, painting, working on drama, playing the guitar, or just hanging around the Bick. A few days of agonizing cramming, and perhaps his grades are high enough to allow him to continue...
...frightened enough to pass, his grades are still likely to fall far below his potential. His confrontation with the CRIMSON or the HDC or the Bick or Widener is likely to open a path of socially acceptable indifference to academic work, to help him form the habits that turn him into what Amherst calls a consistent "under-achiever...
...thirst was only temporary: consumption was falling off and the College was losing money by supplying the few remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which it did, in a blaze of apathy, Harvard men turned back to milk at the Bick, and a few months later another perennial polltaker informed them that milk was indeed Harvard's favorite drink...
Those few traditionalists, however, could always go to the Bick which (no longer frquented by 'Cliffies) would no doubt very quickly acquire the character of a House dining hall. And the less stodgy would receive the benefits due to them--luncheon near their Widener haunts and a much needed opportunity for informal meeting between men and women...