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...door in the rear of Sever 24, which leads to the back stairway and "emergency egress," burst open during class Friday. By the time the class could turn around the door was halfway shut but the diminishing view of two Radcliffe coats could still be seen...
...Lecture Hall is a problem not only in its name, for many, many students have pondered over the questions: "Just when is new old?" but it offers its architectural symmetry(?) as an obstacle to the earnest undergraduate. Approaching the west basement stairway from the corner where traffic is to be dredged, the student, in a hurry of course, finds two routes possible in order to get to the stairway...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
There is an imaginary, though not unlikely situation to be drawn: a student is about to take his last final exam in New Lecture Hall basement. If he fails the exam, he will flunk out. Cramming to the last minute, he finds, as he approaches the stairway, that he has but 12 seconds left to get into the examination on time...
...oldest item in the exhibit is a, Sumerian head of a warrior in stone, dated about 2500 B. C. Other items in the sculpture and ceramics gallery include stone reliefs from the stairway at Persepolis of about 500 B. C.; and a green terra cotta lion of about 1500 B. C. from Nuzi, one of the earliest known examples of finely developed glaze technique...