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...Common Room wall paper, with its scenes of the American Revolution dominates the Exhibition. The architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, through C. A. Coolidge '81. Associate of Lowell House, have loaned two fine pencil drawings of the House. An early engraving of Harvard College in the exhibition is similar to the one used for the china of the House...
When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...
Telling them of by-gone Harvard when the Bullfinch fought the Wren...
...fall the younger Bullfinch builds himself another home...