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...balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved, at the price of most of Daddy's worldly goods-only to be trapped again by a girl MVD agent who wins the simple Communist debutante's confidence with a copy of a magazine resembling Vogue...
...itself was doubtless the primary reason that the student of the 50's could not return to raccoon-coated stereotypes. But there are other factors which make the post-war student different--increasing academic pressure caused by rising applications; the difficulty of securing admission to graduate schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic...
June passed, July passed, August passed, and finally enough of September passed so that it was time to leave the beaches and the clubs, pack up the $350 raccoon coats (bought from Gunther's on Fifth Avenue, of course) and trudge back to Cambridge. The Class moved into Claverly, Westmorly, Russell, Drayton, and a hundred little boarding houses around the Square and settled down to a year of concentration and speculation on what the man with the white mustache would do next. There were some new sights to see around the Square: the Langdell addition had been finished...
Suddenly it was all over. The four years of Cambridge, with Greta Garbo and Douglas Fairbanks playing at the University Theatre, dinners at the Georgian, Mallory straws and raccoon coats at the Coop, and Old Golds without "a cough in a carload," this was all finished...
Eight hundred freshmen field dutifully into Mem Hall in late September of 1927 and the fortunate ones then moved their raccoon coats and Morris chairs to newly renovated Hollis, McKinlock, and Matthews Halls. "McKinlock Hall," the University trumpted, "now caters to '31's palate. We have replaced its musty tone with many delicacies." The delicacies were never enumerated and freshman palates still preferred the eternal Square hash-houses...