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...Type No. 4, the double-decker, that 19th-Century iron founders really went to town. After 1810, Classic Revivalists designed these things with pillars, cornices, lyre scrolls, fluting and acanthus leaves. About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild. Fancy stoves were designed like houses, with mansard roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena...
Freshmen can't know how different Harvard is. But upperclassmen are beginning to recognize that beneath the familiar facade of Lehman Hall and the familiar odor that pervades newly cleaned rooms in the Houses, something has changed. It's not just the odd shapes of double-decker beds, and the war bond thermometer looking down on the Square, although these things are certainly part of the change. It's rather a feeling, growing stronger with every headline, that Harvard's way of life is becoming increasingly incompatible with our effort to defend...
...Harvard Yard there are more men in uniform than in mufti. A dozen or more special schools for Army & Navy men have sprung up. Officers and undergraduates double up in double-decker bunks, overflow dormitories. They eat in shifts (but contracts have been let for a huge new mess hall on the Soldiers' Field tennis courts). The president's big house on Quincy Street has been converted into Naval offices...
...longer listless, Hindus in the Girgaun ran riot. Four double-decker busses were wrecked. One was set afire, blazed high in the sky. Traffic snarled. Foreigners were stoned. So were police, who answered with tear gas, then fired directly into the crowds. The small boy ran from one trouble spot to another. Finally he remembered some blackjacks that he knew about. He got them, took up a stand on the street corner, sold them for one rupee each...
...Alfred Worcester, the Clinic has a short history. Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver professor of Hygiene, successor to Dr. Worcester, expanded the Clinic in 1935 to its present size. At the present time, the personnel inclues a full-time nurse and secretary, and two doctors, Bryant L. Decker. M.D., physician, and Robert R. Linton, M.D., surgeon...