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...freshman. Verr's troubles began last August while he was attending "Beast Barracks," the summer of rigorous training and hazing given to incoming plebes (a word derived from plebeians). Verr was subjected to a traditional form of harassment: upperclassmen ordered him not to put certain foods on his tray, or made him sit at attention while others ate. After going hungry for two days, Verr had tears in his eyes as he left the dining hall. When an upperclassman demanded, "Mister, what are you crying about?" Verr told a disjointed story about his parents' having been...
McCulloh, premier high jumper, pushed a tray through the Quincy House cafeteria line. It was Bicentennial night at Quincy, and McCulloh, who works as a checker there, took nearly 15 minutes to shove through the line speaking with and good naturedly jeering at friends resplendent in star-spangled vests 'and hats...
...someone on a mission. At a brisk half-trot, arms swinging, notebook in hand, he charged right down the middle of the rows upon rows of the public catalogue. Just before he would have crashed into the circulation desk, he wheeled to the left, grabbed a card tray under L, and riffled through it feverishly...
...Widener? Actually, (he looked up, set the file tray on a desk, and pointed upward) I'm looking at the pillars holding up this room. It's the first time I've noticed them, just look at that. Gold marble and gold leaves at the top. Some story says that in Washington, D.C. all the leaves at the tops of columns are tobacco leaves. Goes to show the power of the American tobacco industry infiltrating our pores...
Emerson slammed the L tray back into place, jumped the aisle to the Ms, found a card and muttered "December 1948, December 1948" under his breath as he grabbed for his notebook to write it down...