Word: dingier
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...entering Harvard, has found posted in various places about its living quarters a set of rules called Parietal Regulations. In the newer buildings, such as the Freshman Dormitories, these seem to have been fairly recently printed; but as the undergraduate moves into less modern abodes, they grow older and dingier; until in the Senior Dormitories in the Yard he finds them in company with regulations about carrying water from the common pump; use of kerosene lamps; and other subjects of historical interest. Wherever and whenever he reads them he is amused--by the prohibition of his mad desire to play...