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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed student activities center garnered 53 percent of the nearly 2500 ballots cast, while a hockey rink and a scholarship fund received 18 and 16 percent respectively...
Also on the ballot were a music center, an enlarged infirmary and the monument, but 92 independents took advantage of their write-in privileges and came up with such original suggestions as a veterans bonus and an endowed liquor establishment...
Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the Council's extracurricular activities committee, explained that many voters were confused both by the placing of the hockey rink and auditorium together on the ballot, and ignorance of the fact that the proposed activities center would include a theater. Write-in votes for a theater, as well as ballots marked for auditorium on which the hockey rink was crossed out, were added to the activities center total, Swan said...
...spite of the confusion," Swan added, "student approval of the activities center, is clear." An analysis of the votes showed no difference between veteran and non-veteran opinion...
Dudley Hall, center for the College's 380 commuters, boasts a library including Webster's Dictionary, a few tired periodicals, and a copy of "Campaigning for Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...