Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer the embryonic suggestion that Yale attempt to supply some country life to those for whom it is not immediately available. A large tract of land could be procured in the country fairly near New Haven. This property could be equipped with a rambling shack of some kind, and preferably it should include on it a small lake. In the Fall and Spring students could spend their leisure hours there, reading, swimming, and basking in the sun. It might even turn into a "nudist colony"; then Yale would have something besides "architecture" for which it could be discussed all over...
...seven largest bells of the new Lowell House carillon were brought to Cambridge yesterday and stored in the construction shack adjacent to Gore Ball. The remaining 14 bells will probably be transferred to the same storage place today...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...jumbled crowdedness of Cambridge will always be a pleasant memory to the "old timers." And in addition to this regret, the Vagabond can't help feeling slightly sympathetic for those future Harvard men who are to live in the quarters now being constructed. The long sojourn in the shack at Lowell House while in the process of being built gave the Vagabond some idea of the extent and annoyance of noise. Of course that was only in the day time, but even then there was considerable disturbance. On the uninviting shores of Massachusetts Avenue with its constant stream of rather...