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...same time as the dance, freshmen will conduct a carnival in the gym where food, games, beanies and stuffed animals fill be sold. A special attraction will be a booth where Martha McCabe '53 and Janet McNeil '53 will dodge ping-pong balls...
...television set in the upper common room, two grand pianos, a music room for playing records, a complete darkroom, a wobbly ping-pong table, and comfortable lounges make for gradious and enjoyable living...
Phillips Brooks House offered a basement room, which some wit soon dubbed "the black hole of Calcutta." Although students could cat a homemade lunch there and play ping-pong, there was no doubt about the room's inadequacy. Finally, in 1935, with aid from a special fund, the University opened the Commuter Center in Dudley...
Improvements have gradually made Dudley much more acceptable that the "black hole," though its facilities, do not approach those of a House. Besides the main common room, there are a dining room, ping-pong equipment, and locker facilities. Since many commuters bring part of their own lunch, the Center serves food a la carte. Student organizations have the use of common room tables, and are busiest during lunch hours when the day's largest crowd pours...
...games were such things as Atomic Energy Kits (complete with radioactive screen and uranium ore), Fotokits (with negatives of George Washington, Roy Rogers, Stan Musical, and Rita Hayworth), ping-pong firing Sub-machine Guns ("harmless to bulbs and bric-a-brac"), and a Milton Berle puppet kit ("containing also an actual television script.") There was also a miniature candy-vending machine (subway-type) which required pennies to operate...