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...course, all was not happy in Mudville. Whenever I placed a roll in its holder--after debating for hours one end which way to hang it to prevent disease--I found that the toilet paper was too wide for its holder, or, more aptly named, its squeezer...
...tight that every time I pulled the roll down it would break, leaving me with a single tiny sheet in my hands. Being used to pulling the roll and letting the sheets fly until several yards of toilet paper was all over the ground, this was a disappointment...
...have found that the squeeze phenomenon is not unique to my sophomore year bathroom, which, as a result of renovations to Briggs Hall, no longer exists. The room was gone when I returned to Briggs this spring, but the toilet paper squeezer was still there. In fact, almost everywhere I go around Harvard, I find a t.p. squeezer...
Except for the Sackler Museum. The Sackler has an even more inventive way to prevent overwiping. Though no squeezer prevents the toilet paper from breaking as you pull it off the roll, a unique device prevents the roll from spinning around more than once. Instead of one sheet at a time...
...should be happy with twice the ration of tissues. But because I can't figure out how to take the roll out of the holder, I am conviced that Harvard's toilet paper exploits are an attempt to instill anal retentiveness in its students...