Word: hollises
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And while The Crimson won't own the most modern or most expensive equipment available, it will be a far different newspaper than the one which Hollis Gleason '08, the oldest Crimson editor to attend the Centennial celebration, remembers from his day.
Weld Hall is coeducational by alternate floors while Hollis Hall has separate male-female entries. Hollis Hall residents did not appear as satisfied with the arrangement, stating that their dormitory was not really coeducational.
Alisande L. Citron '76, a Hollis resident, said that "I wish this dorm had been coed." Joan T. Freeman, another Hollis resident said that "while it was interesting being a guinea pig, I really think that separate entries were not successful.
This womanless ("hairy legs") tradition dates back to the first Pudding production of December 13, 1844 in Hollis 11. That first production was a direct steal from a stage play which had run in Boston at the old Tremont Theatre. Lemuel Hayward '45, together with a few of his colleagues...
"The play went off splendidly--Distaffina more a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down. Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry, and there we had the pudding after the play, the actors...