Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyably folksy songs and dances are the best part of an evening that is, after never less than indifferent, and somehow never dull. Rumor has it that a new ballet will be inserted, and this sounds like a fine idea. If enough desultory backchat is cut out to make room for it, if director Vincent J. Donehue can do something about several performances, if the lyrics to more of the songs become audible, if a great deal of miscellaneous tinkering is successfully accomplished, Juno might be okay...
Enough has been said of the comparative splendor of Quincy-with its spacious suites, privacy, elevators, refrigerators in every room, and the modern Lamont-like library-to raise a serious problem concerning the relative deficiency in the other seven Houses...
Leverett, of course, has long faced an unfortunate lack of popularity partially due to architectural features: it lacks a splendid tower and its dining room is a huge reverberating cavern. By now, Leverett's problem has received due recognition from the Administration, which has provided grants to remodel the dining hall, besides extending the House with the new Leverett "Towers." It seems only just for the Administration to pay similar attention to the perhaps less pressing, but nevertheless important lacunae in the physical plants of other Houses...
...start telling him what to do," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, remarked Thursday. Truman had planned to reside at Lowell during his visit. Perkins called it "something of an imposition" to invite "a man who is so busy," but he said there would be room for Truman in Lowell House whenever he could manage to come...
...course," he answered, and to the friend in the room, "Won't you excuse me?" And so it was that I got my interview...