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...smaller College club succeeded in finding enjoyable company with a Radcliffe Freshman. When the evening was nearly over the girl suddenly asked him the name of hour. "Oh, I'm at Dudley--the non-resident Center, " he answered. In a few seconds she found an excuse to disappear "to look for someone I just have to see." Although it was an uncommon affront, his resentment and her unfair prejudice might well characterize the perplexing difficulties confronting Harvard's commuting students. Their struggle is to win more prestige and facilities for a drab Center, and to capture...
...years the University has had theoretical plans to solve the commuter's problems by integrating them into the Houses as non-resident members. Were this done, the Commuter Center would disappear, and the former Dudley man would center his activities in one of the Houses. Besides the objections of a large number of commuters, the cramped conditions in the Houses prevented the integration idea from going beyond the thinking stage...
...around the navel, most parents get panicked about what the doctor calls umbilical hernia. It is customary then to strap the navel with adhesive, and in many cases surgery is advised. Needless, said Dr. Lawson. Even the bandages often cause skin irritation, and the vast majority of umbilical hernias disappear if left alone. Operations, he suggested, are unnecessary before the age of eight-and after that, they will be rare...
...with her queenly figure, lounging on the couch, or gently caressing his knee while he tries, unsuccessfully to ward off her advances. Vincent Price, of course, is merely a pawn, and he realizes it. His defeat is inevitable. In a stunning move the pawn is rooked, and the two disappear into a bedroom for what should logically be the end of the game...
...this case a motorcycle. To Pepicelli, the machine becomes a sort of magic carpet or Genie, and escape from a stolid, unromantic wife. But the motorcycle is not only an escape, it is an end in itself, it becomes his mistress, and in the end it and Pepicelli disappear down the street, never to return...