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...University acquired last fall two apartment houses on Prescott St., which were renamed Greenough and Hurlbut Halls. In the same purchase the University also obtained a small Victorian house, 8 Prescott St., which now houses 17 freshmen, who yesterday expressed great satisfaction with the "fraternity" atmosphere of their crowded dormitory...
There are no suites in 8 Prescott, and all the rooms lack lighting fixtures and uniform heating. Many rooms have no closets, but the University has compensated for these deficiencies by providing residents with foot lockers, floor and desk lamps, and modern furniture...
Despite these inadequacies, the Yardlings like the "family" atmosphere of the dorm, one resident, George Hegeman, reported. Hegeman also praised "the feeling of belonging" which 8 Prescott provides, while Michael Gilman admired the fact that "they's thrown a great bunch of guys together...
Irving S. K. Chin 2L, 8 Prescott's popular proctor, felt that his charges "have adjusted pretty well." He considered the "quality of the people here different," and praised the dorm for being "as close to a fraternity type of arrangement as you can get." Chin has arranged a dance for Saturday night, and plans to use all the downstairs rooms for the event...
...four scattered states the Ike boom sent incumbent Republicans back to the Senate: Connecticut's Prescott Bush beat Congressman Thomas J. Dodd; Maryland's John Marshall Butler, elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle...