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Descending to Scroogian depths, the Housemasters celebrated Yuletide by considering till further slashes in students' opportunities to entertain. Apparently, it isn't enough to castrate three hours each afternoon. Football Saturdays, where the seven until eleven privilege is most needed, may well lose those hours, too. This is by no means official yet, but one can hear Marley's chains already, clanking gloomily in the restructures' minds...
This surge of reaction came to light recently when the administration attempted to justify its lopping off the hours from 1 to 4 as a period when students could entertain a women in one's room. Any red-blooded Harvard student, University Hall believes, spends the hours from 1 to 4 messing around in the laboratory, studying in the library, or rushing about furiously in some form of athletic endeavor. No normal male should even think of seeking female companionship at that time...
...matter of Mr. Amfitheatrof's quotation (in his article on the Salzburg Seminar) should be cleared up. I am the American student he refers to; but the sentiment he baldly states is not mine. When he visited me to discuss the Seminar, I offered to entertain with him an account of my opinions after a summer abroad. Our conversation, I said, was off the record; he asked that it be on so that he might write a fair complete, constructive article, I agreed. In the course of my monologue, I said that thought it seemed inconceivable and illiberal, the Germans...
...College has no other place where girls can entertain their dates after...
...course it is a step forward to be able to entertain women guests on Saturday nights, but that is no reason for taking two steps backward. What possible reason is there for cutting out afternoon permissions? What is the interrelation ship between...