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...March 17, 1914, College Hall, the center of the campus, burned down. There has been lots of emphasis on fire drills since. So around that day of Marsh, the college holds a midnight fire drill. It's the only time a Wellesley girl is told to pull up the shade and keep her door open. She must also grab one valuable thing, even if it's not her roommate. Teddy bears are discouraged. By the by, the girls all have the presence of mind to grab a coat too; so don't come out expecting too much...
...milking, he was a whiz when it came to moneymaking. He was still a teen-ager when he organized a wood & coal business and set teams of schoolboys to doing farm work for him. While his pals labored, Edward perched on a rail fence or reclined in the shade reading a book...
...cartoons rescue the issue, being a shade lower in quality than the average production of the undergraduate editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...
Charles D. Wetmore'89, builder of Claverly, soon had rivals who tried to put it into the shade. A freshman History instructor completed plans to build a new hall--Randolph--across the street, thus shutting the sunlight from Claverly's lower floors. In vain, Wetmore tried to persuade city authorities to increase the 20-feet wide Linden Street...
...Into the Shade...