Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful days...
...Bascom Hill, students emerging from a late class skidded and skated on the icy path, at first accidentally, then for fun. In Slichter Hall, the modern new men's dorm, a bunch of ex-G.I.s played an endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation...
Smooching, Etc. In the '30s, a popular Tin Pan Alley song once told the world what happens "when it's dark on Observatory Hill." It still gets dark there, but most of the sex at Madison since the war has been domesticated. One out of every five students is married (prewar: one in 21). In the G.I. generation, sex doesn't even seem to be a favorite bull-session topic...