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Professor R. M. Ferry, Dr. P. S. Wild, House Office, "D" Entry, Standish Hall: Monday, Thursday, 9.00-9.30 o'clock; Tuesday, Friday, 4.30-5.00 o'clock...
...house libraries: one of them in every house, as intimate as the Christopher Wren room in Sanborn, but much larger, and containing every conceivable book for pleasurable perusal or routine research. We liked the tall-ceilinged fire-lit library in Eliot House, and the clamant Crimson library in Standish, and the goldleaf and wrought iron of Adams...
Quite a number of the new proctors are members of the class of 1931 who are pursuing their studies farther in several of the graduate schools. Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, who until this year was resident in Standish Hall has moved his quarters to Grays Hall...
...given them during the next few days, few can realize what changes have taken place even under the eyes of present upperclassmen. When 1932 was welcomed to Harvard with a parallel series of gatherings and entertainments, there was no House Plan; Freshmen eagerly sought to live in Smith, Standish, Gore, or McKinlock; there was an Appleton Chapel, and Wigglesworth was non-existent. Architecturally, Cambridge could hardly be recognized as its present self. Even officially, first year men received different treatment, with no such organization as now exists under the office of the new Dean of Freshmen...
President Litchfield ("Litch," "P. W.," "the Old Man"-but not to his face) is a shipbuilder by heritage. Among his ancestors were George Soule, Mayflower passenger; also Alexander Standish and Sarah Alden, kin of famed Miles and famed John. His immediate forebears, notably the ship-owning and sailing Robinsons of Bath, Maine (on his mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer...