Word: merriman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faculty members disagree about the knowledge-vending emporiums, whose annual intake comes to $200,000. Dean Alfred C. Hanford leads a bloc which would like to prevent students from enrolling in them. Others--like Professor Roger B. Merriman--take a more liberal view, and suggests their students using them for purposes of reviewing the work of an entire course...
...started when a trio of students worn out with the reading period and exhilarated by a bottle of 15-year-old Scotch, so our anonymous source reports, decided to phone in to the station. "This is Roger Merriman of Cambridge," said one of them, "and I'd like to hear "I Don't want to Make History...
...station found that they didn't have that number, but the name of Roger Merriman went forth as one of the club. Again the group phoned in using the name of the perennial Freshman mentor. This time it was "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Duman" that "Roger Merriman" requested. Again there was no response...
Things were getting pretty desperate. Finally came the request for "I Don't Want to Go to Bed." "Well, well," said the announcer, "Roger Merriman voices a cheerful complaint "I Don't Want to Go to Bed.' Well, stick with us, old boy. Sorry we haven't your record...
...this point the good Mr. Merriman decided to take things into his own hands, and the announcer then came forth with the remark, "We have just had a telephone call from a professor. He says that some of his students have been requesting numbers on our program under his name. The professor says 'he can take it' but he would like, nevertheless, to have us stop using his name and to reprimand the boys who have been using...