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...linen depot is Matthews Hall last night, but without very much linen. After less than as hour of operation, angry freshmen flooded the CRIMSON with visits and phone calls, calling for an end to what one '69er called "sheety inefficiency...
...dangerous and persistent infections in many parts of the body. Ironically, the kinds of "staph" commonly found in hospitals are the worst of all, because they have developed resistance to most of the antibiotics around them. They are spread, usually from wounds or boils, not only on patients' linen, but also on nurses' hands and surgeons' breath, and even through air ducts. Newborn babies, with practically no resistance, are especially susceptible. Some hospital nurseries have been decimated by staph epidemics...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...
Eternal significance has never been the forte of collegiate nostalgia, and 1965 will find little in its freshman year that altered the world--or even the College. The HSA Linen Depot System was the Class' first controversy, but '65 remained oblivious to sophisticated CRIMSON and upperclass attempts to stir discontent. They trekked to their depots, found their packages properly "full of sheets," and went off happily...
There'll be couples sprawled on the grass, babies in strollers, pregnant women, and Cambridge dowagers in ancient linen at the second Yard concert at 7 p.m. tonight. The Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will sing Bach and Randall Thompson...