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...crux of Widener's inability to serve College students centers on the disproportionate amount of freedom granted men doing stack work. Unrestricted as to the number of books he may take into a stall, a research student is permitted to retire an essential text from service for an indefinite length of time. Although subject to recall, books scattered throughout the stalls and faculty offices are often impossible to track down. Men browsing through the stacks misplace large numbers of books, and stalls are outfitted with bookcases which admittedly encourage the acquisition of a private library...
Less Fun. Inflation has spoiled the fun. Bargaining has become shrill, bitter, desperate. When the housewife asks why tomatoes have jumped 10% overnight, why beans which cost 50 centavos a kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing...
...twelve then, and suddenly just about the richest girl in the world. She was gingerly brought up on the 2,500-acre Somerville estate. The most fun she had was with her pony, Patsy. She loved Patsy, and when the pony died she hung a sign on the empty stall: "Ponies do have souls and Patsy most...
...just a horse, it's Man o' War. I loved him best. A perfect gentleman, impeccable in conformation, beautiful yet not effeminate, with an eagle eye and a noble carriage. Yet I must say he was not without vanity. He'd be dozing in his stall and some visitors would arrive. He would rouse himself, get to his feet and give them that look of the eagles-lofty and over their heads you know. But he'd let me push him or pull him around. Of course there was a little cupboard love involved-I always...
Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters have not kept pace with the general enthusiasm is largely due to an unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that...