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...Crimson Key tour will have informed you that Mem Hall used to have a steeple, (which got burned to a crisp in 1957) and that it used to be a church, and that all those off men who peer gargoyle-like from the eaves of Sanders Theater had some significance to someone at sometime, but that's all Fine Arts and you want tradition...
...traditions of Mem Hall have grown out of the countless exams that have been administered there. Some Harvard exam stories are true classics. One such involves a guy who was taking an exam in Mem Hall (and cheating on it), who walked up to turn in his blue book only to be told by the proctor that the gig was up, for he had been nailed committing his heinous crime...
...Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...
...first, though, it is hard to see anything out of the ordinary. The firehouse, tucked quietly in the shadow of Mem Hall, is a rather traditional looking building which blends right in with the surrounding brick of the Harvard campus. Three companies of the Cambridge Fire Department are headquartered in the house, an engine company, an aerial tower company and the department's special rescue company...
...office or factory job where only half of one's faculties are engaged. It is a job over which the men can get excited. Every alarm represents a potential challenge, a chance to learn something new. There is seldom any boredom or complacency, especially since the firehouse next to Mem Hall is one of the busiest in the city...