Word: sanctum
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...Quadrangle tree by a bunch of 'Cliffe-dwellers, irreproachable Paul and lovable Georgie. Not to mention the blond visionary and the albuminous adolescent and, least as well as last, the warm stone from Washington Square. And the things he had done; the beer he had drunk in the Sanctum in honor of his ancestors who had drunk beer there in honor of their ancestors. There, at 4 a.m., he had quietly wondered what he was; there, at 3 a.m., he had stamped out the conga. On the very piece of furniture which now bore him, under the yellow daguerreotype...
Quietly the Jester fell out of the Sanctum, as he heard a piercing shriek and a loud ringing noise from the next room...
...contented hum of the refrigerator that posed in the blackness, two feet in front of him. His hand brushed the string. He grasped it and pulled; then painlessly extracted another beer from the refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with a litle click. Someone's phonograph was playing from a room in Adams House. Suddenly, completely without warning, the fragile atmosphere shattered into...
Fame, beer, and the exciting career of journalism will knock at the door of every '45 man next Monday night, when the ivy-covered sanctum on Plympton Street opens its doors for its 210th competition and open house...
...Sanctum dances and blowouts will be open to all who make the Board...