Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies the Wild Westerns and G-Men films seen so far . . . An automatic "Hep-one-two-three" machine that could be strapped to a section leader's back . . . An Admiral...
...Lupy" thinks her job is unique indeed, since she works in a men's dorm building and arrives daily to the tune of showering baritones, blasting radios, and choice bits of Midshipman chatter that slip right through the walls, fellows. Some day she hopes to write a book, "A Woman's View of Life in a Men's Dorm...
Since the second Midshipman class begins here June 1st, most of the present class will move out of Chase, to some nearby dorm, before that date. We think it would be possible, in view of the arrival of the new class, the weather, and sundry other considerations, that graduation might take place Saturday, May 29, instead of the following Tuesday, to everyone's advantage. That's the least we can ask of our beloved blue-book graders...
Mellon Hall living quarters of the statisticians will be vacated during the afternoon and evening Monday; next day the char force moves in armed with brooms, rags mops, to prepare the dorm for the following class--the 8th class--due from Miami about March...
When there's a phone call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri...