Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon realizes what a fool he has been: Luisa is pregnant, and they have nowhere to go. In desperation, Natale decides to build one of the "abusive dwellings"-one-room squatter shacks-that spring up overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...
Under the current system, reserve books circulate for use outside the library only after 9 p.m. Too often, the library staff feels, students borrow these books early in the morning and hide them somewhere in the stacks during the day to be sure of having a book overnight...
...committee, studies of systems at other college libraries have shown that many plans are more flexible than Lamont's. Zagat envisions a system which would allow undergraduates to take reserve books out of the library for specified three-hour periods during the day. Books would then circulate for overnight...
...sufficiently low so that all might afford it. Some arrangements might be made for evening meals as well to insure that when commuting freshmen eat in the Square they do so with their classmates whenever possible. 4. Provision of several suites in the Yard where commuting freshmen might stay overnight and where they may live for periods of two weeks each during the year in order to sample the features of "living...
...common room (an entrance hall with couches and coat-racks) and a rather plain cafeteria are located on the first floor of Dudley Hall on Dunster Street. In Apley Court (a block away on Holyoke) are the House offices, a music-typing room, the library (seating 16), and an overnight bunk-room. Not only decentralized, these facilities are makeshift and inadequate...