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Unwanted, underestimated, and as yet unpaid, Harvard's two-score farmers and as many Radcliffe farmerettes didn't find their apple orchard any Garden of Eden yesterday, but they expressed themselves as "highly satisfied" with the results of the College's most recent venture into the agricultural world...
With well over 200 volunteers signing up to spend their weekend thus fruitfully employed, Andrew E. Rice '43, who was in charge of the episode, found that there was a surplus of workers that threatened to paralyze the available transportation system and inundate the orchard. Only by dint of frantic last-minute telephone calls did he discourage some of the would be patriots and reduce the party to a manageable figure...
Disillusioned by this uninspiring example, they nevertheless repaired to the orchard, where they were promptly set to work gathering apples that had already fallen to the ground. "But we weren't allowed so much as to touch an apple on a tree," they...
...local apple growers faced the prospect of lush fall harvests rotting for lack of pickers, the War Service Committee together with the Radcliffe League for Democracy yesterday leaped into the breach with a proposal that students from Harvard and Radcliffe sign up to pick apples at a large orchard near Marlboro over Columbus Day, October...
...Wilderness! In Enterprise, Ore., three of a crew of four farmhands left a harvesting machine to look for apples, met a bear in the orchard, sped back to find the fourth man beating off a rattlesnake...