Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discovering that all of this was great fun, the College fire department soon acquired its own engine, which was tended regularly by students. Once, to keep it in shape, the students set an old house on fire. Because the apparatus was slightly decrepit the boys nearly reached the scene after the neighbors had succeeded in halting the blaze. Undaunted, the students pumped water on the neighbors, who had intruded upon the boys' prerogative. The real compensation for fighting even this blaze was a steak dinner at the Porter House...
...runs equally well in the opposite direction. Well known at Radcliffe is the song about the poor girl who wrote a thesis for some boy each year for three years, only to be "dropped" as soon as her typewriter-weary fingers turned over the black-covered masterpieces. A familiar scene around the Quad, come examination period, is a harried-looking Harvard student coming to get reading and/or lecture notes from a willing Cliffe amanuensis...
Academic assistance is a two-way street. Widener Reading Room has provided the scene for many inexpensive rendezvous meetings justified by the desire for scholarship. Harvard students cannot justify the Cliffies' higher marks on the basis of assistance rendered, since the assistance is just as likely to come in the opposite direction...
...farce, which differed generally from the modern product because it was not altogether unconscious, was apt as well as flattering. Some Like It Hot, unlike most recent domestic attempts, follows the tradition of Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin that Tati revered. It's a welcome arrival on the local scene...
...chance to escape: the first time he answers the call of a dying woman, and later he returns from across the border to the aid of a dying man, only to find that he has been trapped by the police, who have sought him from the opening scene...