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...snack bar, operated by students, will serve coffee and doughnuts. Other planned additions are coke and cigarette machines and ping-pong and card tables...
With no frappe and hamburger palaces nearby, Dunster has resourcefully set up a small arcade in the C-entry basement which features, besides ping-pong, pool, and television, a wide selection of lowcost sandwiches, a milk and apple-juice dispensor, and a three-flavored soft drink machine. As the evening progresses the Dunster center of gravity shifts from the well-used common room to the C-entry arcade. The sale of sandwiches indicates that about one-third of the House eventually gathers in there each evening, thus providing another cohesive factor in a naturally cohesive House...
Perhaps most popular among its assets is Eliot's fine grille in the basement of I-entry where the hungry student can procure almost anything to eat from 5 p.m. till midnight. The house also boasts a chapel, a fine library, the best House darkroom, a projected are studio, ping-pong and pool tables, and squash courts, as well as the smallest and worst junior common room of all the Houses...
...ways to train animals. Regrettably, these by-products are enlarged out of proportion to their importance. "The press," Skinner complains "is always looking for the sensational. As a result they get the piddling instead of the important." Magazines are continually looking for features showing Skinner training pigeons to play ping-pong or count or bang out tunes on the piano. A movie company is now angling for a short showing him training a dog to do tricks. This completely distorts Skinner's work. Actually, every student in Nat. Sci. 114 soon learns Skinner's method of training animals...
This is the end of the story, but two implications deserve emphasis. In the first place, the police used totalitarian-tinged methods. Secondly, it appears that these are the only facilities for ping-pong in the neighborhood acoessible to the boys. Perhaps these two facts will help explain why next fall the Cambridge youth will be cheering for the Bulldogs. Albert E. Trieschman 1G David M. Heer...