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...unusual of old Holworthy customs had to do with the annual Class Day celebration. As soon as all ladies had left the Yard, the residents of Holworthy would come charging down the lawn, taking off their clothes as they ran. The goal of so strange a chase was the fountain erected each year to commemorate Class Day. Eventually the practice of taking an annual bath in the Yard spread to the whole college...
There is no assurance that some of the stories told of Holworthy are not a bit apocryphal. Truth may at times be stranger than fiction, but stories, even true ones, have a way of growing. For instance, how could 48 Holworthy men have fitted into the small Class Day fountain? And was Professor Sophocles ignorant or exempt from the dormitory regulations which prohibit animals of any nature from being in rooms...
FORTNUM & MASON of London, the world's most elegant and conservative (the clerks wear morning dress) food specialty store, is going modern. After installing cash registers (without bells), the store will now put in a U.S.-style soda fountain to "keep abreast of the times...
...assigned to set it up. Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed up and the school lasted--very successfully--for some three months...
...spent 26 years in Hawaii and can manage a graceful hula. Maintenance Chief Sister Jeannette always has plenty of odd jobs going begging. "I received the most wonderful present for Christmas," she says. "A power saw! Things like that are what we really need-not more black gloves and fountain pens and devotional books...