Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper's office moved around a good bit in those days (1304 Mass. Avenue in 1895, the Union basement in 1901, 14 Plympton St. in 1915), but wherever it went there was a Sanctum, a center of exuberance and conviviality. As FDR put it in his report for an early CRIMSON catalog, "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters (the Union) would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old Sanctum, and also that no punch nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved to be groundless...
...paper's social aspect has always been so important that the early constitution set aside $100 for "a spring party" and up to $70 for the Sanctum punches. Though no longer provided for in the constitution, parties and dances still rock the building at 14 Plympton...
...editors were satisfied with their product, they were not happy about their environment; by 1914, there was more than a little agitation for a private CRIMSON building; Undergraduate interest and graduate financing combined on the project, and in 1915 the nomadic newsmen finally settled down at their 14 Plympton St. headquarters never to unsettle again...
...doubt for a while, Crime staffers treated their spanking new building more kindly than they do now, and the paper certainly was kind to them in those first few successful years on Plympton. But it was too good to last and hardly expected to with a Democrat, and a Princeton man to boot, in the White House...
...paper couldn't excell in quality, it could always turn to quantity, as it usually did on Yale game Saturdays. In 1921, the prolific Plympton men spewed forth a 16-page morning edition, a 40-page pictorial supplement, a 4-page post-game extra, and 45,000 song programs, which is a world's record for something or other...