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...must view this display of young animal spirits with sympathy and understanding. Even the most industrious students need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...
This attitude would be completely understandable if the demands for the ping-pong tables, the various clubs, and most particularly the dances, had not come from the students themselves. They complained, for instance, of the expense of Saturday night dates in the metropolitan area, so the Union provided two dances, including orchestra, refreshments, and entertainment for two dollars. Out of 1,400 Yardlings, 114 showed up at the first dance, and 134 at the second, and only a handful from the dormitory that had been the center of pre-dance agitation. Some attributed the poor attendance to the difficulty...
...content with just one show in an evening, the Harvard Dramatic Club is planning to open its fortieth season next month by singeing the boards of Sanders Theatre with a double feature production of Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" and a William Saroyan short, "The Ping-Pong Players...
Neither being full-length shows, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 plans to contrast Odets' powerful social drama with Saroyan's light comedy as an experiment in theater technique. "Waiting for Lefty" is a drama of the labor problem, while "The Ping-Pong Players" is a light one-act love scene...
...answer to the requests of the polled Freshmen, ping-pong tables and a music and record room will soon be available for student use. Plans are also underway for a darkroom to supply the needs of eager student photographers...