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...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...
...some of these restrictions necessary. Interhouse privileges at lunch, for instance, while theoretically desirable, would result in mass descents on Adams House on cold, rainy days, and even in the warmth of spring lazy science majors would seek out the closest dining hall. Major migrations of this sort, which depend on the vagaries of the weather and of student programs, would make an administrative tangle out of all proportion to their actual value to students. But interhouse between the Union and the House is another matter. With veterans making up a large proportion of Yardlings, friendship ties cross Massachusetts Avenue...
Chinese drama (hsi chü), like 100-year-old eggs, has few enthusiasts in the U.S. Westerners have difficulty staying awake through its mute, complex formality and its endless haggling with a ritual whose whole meaning may depend on the number of folds in an actor's sleeve. But last week a Chinese company of 14 did pretty well on Broadway...
When airplanes follow a great-circle course, they often buck head winds all the way. A longer course to the left or right may give them helpful tail winds. How to find such winds has been the problem. The pilot cannot depend, like a sailing-ship captain, on the average wind directions over long periods of time. He crosses too quickly for that. A strong head wind lasting only a few hours may upset his schedule as much as if it kept blowing for weeks...
Restricted by a lack of funds in many instances, the settlement houses are for the most part unable to hire the bulk of their staff and must depend upon volunteers. Of thirty-five houses in the Greater Boston area, there are twenty-six at the present time with a shortage of personnel and a curtailed program to match. This gap can well be filled in large part by students who can spare two hours weekly...