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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the guiding hand of Housemaster David M. Little '17, Adams consistently throws some of the largest formal dances of the year, and an active house committee contrives a steady flow of Saturday night informal dances. Adams was one of the first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Report On the Houses | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Laundry Service | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

Letter & Spirit. April 4 was the date named by the bishop for the Melishes' "pastoral relationship" to "cease." But father & son made no move to pack up their vestments. Instead, Rector Melish announced that he denied the legality of the bishop's action - a course that may well end up in the civil courts. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pastoral Relationship | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...office in 22 U.S. cities found these films leading the pack during February, according to Variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box Office | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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