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Have you any information as to the justifications provided for the policy of ringing the Mem Church bell 26 times each hour during the day and 126 times (roughly) before every Church service? The latter ordeal of bell-ringing takes five minutes, and renders sleeping in the Yard dormitories impossible from 8:40 to 8:45 a.m. on week-days, and from 10:55 to 11:00 on Sundays...
...company's grand brick structure which suggests a utilitarian Mem Hall, is but a ten minute walk from the Yard, lying between the Charles and Putnam Square on Massachusetts Avenue. It contains not only a factory, but also a retail sales room, for anyone in the market for a paper collar. Customers are infrequent, but just a few days ago a Royal Navy captain, whose cruiser was docked in Boston, ran out of detachables (still popular in Her Majesty's Service) and dispatched a jeepload of sailors to pick up a carton...
...hope the University will give serious considertation to not restoring Mem Hall in its entirety. It isn't too bad looking just the way the fire has left it. We don't need the clock nowadays. Everyone has a wrist Watch...
Eight hundred freshmen field dutifully into Mem Hall in late September of 1927 and the fortunate ones then moved their raccoon coats and Morris chairs to newly renovated Hollis, McKinlock, and Matthews Halls. "McKinlock Hall," the University trumpted, "now caters to '31's palate. We have replaced its musty tone with many delicacies." The delicacies were never enumerated and freshman palates still preferred the eternal Square hash-houses...
January. The Harvard faculty will be rocked by an expose of the local jewelry store that sells bogus Phi Beta Kappa keys. Crane Brinton will abandon his professorship to become a section man at Sarah Lawrence. Seven alumni of the class of '18 will picket Mem Hall crying, "Veritas has become demi-tasse and these hallowed halls have termites!" Three business school students will be arrested for smuggling the newly banned copies of Playboy over the state line...