Word: mem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscientious lad, Mr. Leonard says, will go through Mem Hall in 20 or 30 minutes, and by conscientious lads Mr. Leonard means Freshmen. Upperclassmen, he says, suffer from over-confidence and are always the underdogs of registration. He expects his peak load between 11 and 12 today...
...came out of Mem Hall after your signatory ordeal feeling that you had wasted your fin (a quid to you limeys) on a Student Council donation, rest easy; it won't be wasted...
When the balloons, littered beer cans and mangled bodies had all been swept up from Mem Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops for all time. Entertainment--loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand...
...could have casually slipped in a few views of a brawny Harvard stag line. Nor will the statement that the local boys don't speak until introduced encourage prospective Harvard fans at female institutions; a correction should feature a picture of the Student Union's annual stag dance at Mem Hall...
...casual observer finds the fire station, located in front of Mem Hall, a Republican cartoon of W.P.A. inaction. Everywhere shirt-sleeved men are loafing. In the third floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball...