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...large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find a place for his coat on an overburdened clothes rack. In the basement, a student is apt to kick his locker rather than struggle with the old lock that opens the way to a minimum of space. Old ping pong tables, a billiard room with no pool table, and dingy lighting are all less than satisfactory. Even the television set hasn't been used for any length of time in months because Dudley's heavy stone walls block effective reception...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

...more space. By knocking out the wall between an old game room the dining hall this last summer, Dudley expanded its eating facilities to conform with the Cambridge fire laws for the first time in several years. A number of students, however, still slip down to the basement ping pong room to cat their lunch, and the closeness of tables in the lunch room gives it the atmosphere of a cafeteria rather than a dining hall. Yet the food, brought over from the Adams House kitchen, is as good or better than that of the houses. And the addition...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

...Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea: 16 Russian MIGs. McConnell believed in aggressiveness and good eyesight. "Everything," he once said, "I owe to my eyes." Also: "I can walk into a squad room, watch the men playing ping-pong, and pick out the best fighter pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Ace's End | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...addition to the library, Bundy also announced other changes, in Dudley. The small dining hall will be enlarged during the summer, the ping pong room will be improved, and a new game room in the Apley Court basement will be built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Library Planned For Dudley Commuters | 5/20/1954 | See Source »

...library, at the apex of the house triangle, is the largest physically and is quite comfortable. The lighting--long a source of complaint--was improved two weeks ago. Also available are several piano rooms, one of them in the tower, a photo dark room, billiard and ping-pong tables, a record listening room, and a chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Friendship Rests On Sincerity, Not On 'Hello' | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

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