Word: linens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of oily facility that amuses at first but disgusts in the end. The laundresses really began to bother me about the third time around. Day after day (which amounts to every ten minutes in the film) they bring him his shirts. The implication is that he changes his linen in front of them after he finishes working up a sweat bending them to his will. All this leaves you wanting to take a bath...
...Harvard Student Agencies linen service has opened its new "depots" in the Yard four days a week to relieve the crowding that plagued the pick up stations when open just once a week...
Dean von Stade's prediction that the Harvard Student Agencies' linen and laundry depots will not last the month is certainly welcome news to freshmen. A glance at the long lines of students awaiting their weekly care packages of linen would be enough to suggest that the depot system is far from the ideal solution to linen and laundry delivery problems in the Yard...
...perhaps a credit to the tightness of Mr. Burke's security system that Gordon Linen, The Coop Laundry, and the Gold Coast Valeteria--the only firms previously allowed to make deliveries in University dormitories--were denied their solicitation privileges without the knowledge of some members of the Committee on Solicitations...
...midst of such complete confusion in the Administration the injustices to the Coop and the Gold Coast are easily forgotten. Trottenberg had sent a memo to Burke as a reminder to inform them about the new delivery system; Gordon Linen (HSA's biggest customer) apparently had been informed well in advance. But Burke did not bother to inform the Coop and the Gold Coast until the Fall Term had begun and the depots had already been organized. He told them the decision preventing room to room deliveries was irrevocable: "it was an administrative decision from over my head." Burke...