Word: mem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friday night's Cabaret Dance transformed Mem Hall's elephantine West Room into a conglomeration of jammed night-club-like tables, but order was temporarily installed when Bob Ashenhurat '50's "Jubilee Day" show held the Spotlight. Here pre-dance romantic difficulties were put to words and music for an audience with some preoccupations...
Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge...
Heeding neither praise nor abuse, Memorial Hall stands placidly between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets dedicated to the memory of Civil War dead and the proposition that the grotesque can be successfully combined with the sublime. Unfortunately time has weakened the proposition. Today Mem's begargoyled exterior may arouse occasional wistful memories in old alumni hearts, but it is often considered little more than an antiquated obstacle in the path to New Lecture Hall-bound students...
Following a brief adventure as one of the Naval School "ships" during World War I, Mem's usefulness gradually declined after it was released from dining hall service in 1924. Since then the Great Hall hodgepodge of ornate tapestries, stained glass windows, portraits, and busts, has withdrawn into brooding silence broken only by an occasional dance or banquet. Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from...
...been relatively quiet on the Mem Hall scene since then. Most recent renovation has been the transformation of its basement into ultra-modern psychology and psycho-acoustic laboratories. Walking through the medieval transept and then down into the futuristic halls of science beneath is as startling as being transported from the Dark Ages into the World of Tomorrow. At last the Renaissance seems to have overtaken Memorial Hall...