Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First invite the Harvard Trustees out to look the place over; then play a little coy, a little hard to get (consolidation); but leave the door open. It's still too early to hope for Radvard or Harcliffe University, and Radcliffe University is a long ways in the future. But we can wait...
...yielding nothing whatever in style or quality to the existing residential Houses," was put in the "front rank of Harvard's immediate concern." Last December the existing commuter center attained House status when Dean Leighton arrived at Dudley as its first Master. The words "Dudley Hall" on the front door were changed to "Dudley House," and new stationery was promptly ordered...
Furthermore, not all Dudleymen even bother to grace Dudley's door-step, and many of those who do regard it as merely a coat-rack and cafeteria. The place lacks tone--participation is erratic. The result: an athletic program that is "good, but difficult to support adequately," or as another commuter put it more accurately, "good on paper, but lacking in spirit...
...truck driver scheduled to go on trial in a few days for the rape of a 24-year-old white woman last February, leaped from his bunk, pulled on his pants, made for the shower. For a moment the men fumbled with the key, then opened the cell door and rushed in. "Get him! Get him!" one man snarled. They swarmed all over...
...holiday was celebrated as usual last year. But not everyone was amused. Jean Amiel, 37, who taught English at the local lycée, rushed to quiet his five-year-old daughter when she awoke crying, after youngsters had slipped firecrackers through the letter slot in Amiel's door and they exploded in the hall. He went to the open window, glimpsed five boys and two girls running laughing down the street. Said Amiel later: "I saw only silhouettes. I didn't recognize any of the children. Suddenly I got the idea of surprising them or frightening them...