Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RETURNING TO Cambridge as a sophomore. I went to look at my House. The day was bright and sunny, but an icy wind blew through Mather House, starting at a gaping hole in what appeared to be the dining room wall, and exiting through a broken window two hunks of cement down. It was a Friday morning; nobody was working...
...slink out of the supervisor's office, a jock looms over the horizon. "Hey, what is this?" he says. "There's a goddam bunk bed in my goddam room. Are they trying to give us a goddam floater? We ain't gonna take this crap. We'll make him so miserable he'll be begging to move out within a week...
...friend Tom, a fellow Mather orphan, arrived at his six-man quaint to find all the bedrooms padlocked and reserved with signs for "Dave and Betsy." "Steve and Joanne," "Mona and The Madman," "Ken," and "Crazy Al." The living room was filled to chest level with barbells, broken furniture, and several Persian rugs and boxes of knickknacks Ken had culled from a couple of profitable years on the Lampoon business board...
...roommates sprouted and faded throughout the next week like acne, Tom was evicted from every room in the suite. He agreed to share a bedroom with Crazy Al, who hadn't shown up yet, and applied for the second smallest. "Dear Dave," he wrote, "Crazy Al and I would like to use your room as a double. I hope we can settle these differences and live together amicably. Sincerely yours...
Dave wrote back: "Dear Tom, Keep the Hell Out of My Room. Sincerely yours, Dave...