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...nutcracker face, manages to draw a beer while glancing back over his shoulder at the light. "Who do ya like?" he says in a shrill voice to no one in particular and then turns back to the tap at precisely the moment that the beer is about to overflow the glass...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is currently considering a proposal that would establish an overflow reserve of more than 100 rooms. Harvard would rent any unused space to graduate students and other affiliates. The plan is sound, as long as new housing remains as a buffer. If the reserve space should become another Claverly Hall by default, another nook and cranny for cramming in extra students, it would defeat the purpose of the plan...
Like all simple plans, this one has its practical problems--like where the space is going to come from. The most important consideration is that the reserve accomodations be near the River and the Quad so that overflow students can maintain ties with their houses. If so, the plan will be an adequate band-aid on the housing problem...
...auction, held at motels in Fresno one day and Sacramento the next, attracted overflow crowds of farmers and agribusinessmen, but the results were something of a letdown for BankAmerica. Successful bidders paid only 76% of the appraised value of the land on average, and six of 23 parcels went unsold because no one was willing to make the minimum bids that had been set. The $3.8 million raised by the auction was "less money than we had hoped for," admitted BankAmerica Vice President H.G. Weichert. But at his institution these days, every little bit helps...
Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Event organizers are expecting a large turnout, and there will be a video overflow room for those who cannot be seated in the Law School courtroom...