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...keeping with the European tradition of the coffee house as a place to meet and converse with friends, Miss Yanguas does not allow any guitar playing or background music in her cafe. Even Segovia would not be allowed to disturb the quiet. Nor will she permit eccentric barefoot students to enter. "You wouldn't go to see a friend without your shoes," she declares...
This narrow parking space is little better than its predecessor. The noise of the motorcycles will disturb almost as many students as before. Leverett and Lowell House rather than Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot will suffer now. At least the lot could have been placed a little further away from Lowell up Plympton Street. A parking lot several walking minutes from the latter houses makes it almost absurd for a student there to own a motorcycle, presumably purchased for use on short trips...
Strangely, the parking ban suggests that somehow the scooters parked on Mill Street between Mather and McKinlock do not disturb the peaceful silence of the evening. Present plans do not, but should, correct the annoying scooter noise in this area...
...like Exeter, for when the teacher lives in the same building with students and sees them a great deal outside the classroom, teaching becomes a full-time job, instead of an "hours only" occupation. In colleges where the work load is far lighter, the change in curriculum might seriously disturb the balance between research and teaching...
...stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...