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...talent. My first encounter with Science at Harvard, for example, came during my first and pretty nearly my last bridge game there. It came a few weeks after the assistant dean's explanation, which it seemed to call into question, if not to contradict. The bridge game was in Thayer South, a dormitory which is the past has often housed many pre-medical students, and this may account for the fact that there was an experiment going on when I came in, with 20 or 25 people standing around watching its progress or if they were too short for that...
LIFE in Pennypacker was somewhat different from life in Thayer South. Just as Harvard had crowded a predominance of premeds into Thayer South, according to the conventional wisdom, so it had crowded a predominance of misfits and lunatics into Pennypacker. One piece of evidence for this belief was the fondness of many of Pennypacker's residents for scaling the building's outside wall, balancing on the inch-wide fourth-story fire-escape railing, and them chinning themselves onto the roof. The main attraction of being on the roof, as far as I could tell, was the opportunity it afforded...
...dorm nearest Robinson Hall. A second part of the dorm will lie on the Robinson Hall side of the larger structure. The dorm will be four stories high in most places, although a few sections will rise to five stories. However, even the highest sections will be lower than Thayer Hall. The dorm will almost surely look very similar to the rest of the Yard buildings...
...once wrote, in fact, that his greatest conviction was concurrence with Ezra Thayer in the view that "the central tragedy of life is that there are only 24 hours in the day." On the other hand, Cox, who will be moving to Washington with his wife, Phyllis, for the year, has found limits to his capacity. "For a time I guess I'll be doing some coming back and forth," Cox sighs and then flashes his easy grin. "But I'm no Dean Dunlop--I haven't got his capacity to sit up all night on airplanes...
...Broadway and 46th Street Automat, an aging ex-vaudevillian named Edna Thayer belts out tunes like Don't Dunk a Doughnut Unless You Know How to Dunk...