Word: quads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt a warm, liquid pressure at the back of his throat. He tried to light a cigarette and found his hand was shaking and gave up. He could see out the window and across the quad from his chair; it was a gray day with the wind whipping off the river, and the couples were already filing out of the entrys and towards the dining hall gate. There were boys carrying blankets and shorthaired girls brushing leaves from their green dresses. Vag watched them for a minute, then got up and opened his desk drawer...
...down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled in one hand. It could have the extra seat. This was Saturday afternoon, and Vag had a job to do. "What the hell," he thought. "We've got five more to go." As he paced himself through the gate, Vag lifted his head...
...boys from Mill Street will enter the fray after only two days' practice on the 'Cliffe quad under the aegis of an anonymous Radcliffe field hockey star. Pine Manor, Wheaton, Sargent, and Mt. Holyoke have all accepted challanges from the unhappy locals. No invasion of the Annex is as yet scheduled, but negotiations for the tilt are being plotted...
...meeting, held under the joint auspices of Radcliffe and the Harvard Economics Department, introduces a series of talks and forums at Radcliffe similar to the programs of Harvard Houses. Miss Mary Churchill Small, Dean of Residence, is in charge of lining up programs and speakers for quad activities...
...buildings would be modern enough, with ample room to house a giant refectory and 750 students, including Brown's 17 fraternities. But a 10-ft. dry moat would surround them all, and a bristling 6-ft. iron stockade would surround that. There would be three entrances to the quad, each with a guardhouse manned by campus police. Underground, a network of passageways would allow students to go to dinner without getting drenched in wet weather...