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Widener's 30 steps again demonstrated their sole raison d'etre yesterday evening as they formed the stage for the first of the two annual Harvard Glee Club Yard Concerts. While the Club is, by and large, repeating lighter works sung throughout the regular indoor season, the birds, transient aircraft, and other outdoor effects lend a new sound to the music that is all to the good...
Conditions in Cambridge itself were not quite as favorable. The Continental, with only a few transient rooms, offers at present about 12 beds for the weekend; the Commander is a little better off, with perhaps 20 spaces. The Brattle Inn held no hope for more than three or four rooms, and these would not be definite until the week of the dance...
Also, no code of ethics is an adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
While all board charges cease with the last meal Saturday, students who desire to take their meals at the Union during the week-long vacation can sign on there throughout the rest of the week. Transient rates will be in effect for those who intend to do a great amount of dining out, and coupon books will be on sale...
Primary function of the Center, Hamlen stated, would be as a sort of "transient meeting place where any of Harvard's 82,000 Alumni visiting Cambridge could hang their coat, rest their weary bones, or thaw out after a football game...