Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will come as a relief to many men to know that they will still be allowed to make up groups when applying for rooms in the Houses. True the Masters hope to keep the groups as small as possible and strongly oppose any, plan which would make up an entire entry of intimate friends, but they have excellent ground for doing so. Since the occupancy of the rooms is to extend over a period of three years, there would be a tendency for certain entries to take on the color of exclusive clubs. Such a tendency would smack dangerously...
...five dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their colleges at a comparatively early hour each night...
Lowell House, of which Professor Coolidge, is head, will contain 139 single suites, 73 double suites, and one triple suite, thus accomodating 288 students. Or this group, however, a small number will be graduates. All these rooms are steam heated, and with but few exceptions, are equipped with fireplaces...
...high tower at the Northeast corner of the West Court, there will be a "meeting room". This is intended for the use of small student organizations, primarily members of the House, who wish to have a place of reunion at stated times...
...idle to inveigh against the stubborn fact some of the most thoroughly joyous, some of the most intensely vital experiences of living are inevitably interwoven with risk. One of Harvard's players has added his name to the fortunately small, but always unhappily large percentage of men who have derived more harm than good from participation in a fine game. It only remains to extend to Victor Harding and his family a deep sympathy that they have been made to suffer by a serious football injury...