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Mellon Hall living quarters of the statisticians will be vacated during the afternoon and evening Monday; next day the char force moves in armed with brooms, rags mops, to prepare the dorm for the following class--the 8th class--due from Miami about March...
When there's a phone call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri...
...remembered overhearing some of the boys in the dorm explaining how the graders came to the B School only to find husbands; that unless you dated them, you were lost. Not only that, but they said that all the graders had majored in Fine Arts and Sanskrit in college...
...midst of a minor political revolution in one of the dormitories. An attempt to oust a student Hall president from office resulted in splitting the members of the hall into two warring factions. The political issue soon faded into insignificance. After 32 of the 79 girls living in the dorm refused to sign a petition calling for the removal of their student leader, the majority labeled them the "dirty thirties," a name carrying the stigma of immorality...
Striking back more directly and effectively, the stay-at-home Purity Leaguers took to waiting in a body on the balcony over the lobby of the dorm and kibitzing on the final, more intimate moments of the dates of the popular "dirty thirty" girls. When the unfeased glamour gals refused to let themselves be upset by this tactic and allowed their Freshman dates to take longer than the allowed five minutes in bidding them good-night, the kibitzers moved down and surrounded them...