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...girls who live there, Daniel Henry Holmes Hall represents anything from escape to imprisonment. Although its smooth, half-lit corridors and functionally quadratic rooms are reminiscent of a converted hospital, most of the inhabitants like it for just that reason. To some it is a "horrible little modern pine world...
Holmes has all the advantages of up to date design. The 51 rooms, uniformly covered with light pastel shades, have pine furniture, pine beds, and pine doors. In each room there are two desk lamps. The accent on living is an accent on simplicity and mass-production good taste...
...rooms present a challenge. They are difficult to decorate because they come furnished with a great deal of pine, and because only one wall is suitable for hanging pictures. Although Marjorie Gabriel '53, dorm president, said that "each girl decorates her room as she would decorate her room at home," most turn to the collegiate effect, with emphasis on banners and crimson cushions and a notable lack of frilly stuff. Even the few possible varieties of decoration, however, call up the normal feminine snobbish between tastes. "I just loathe chintz bedspreads...
...knowledge is a torch of smoky pine...
Inside the big, greenish concrete plant, the visitors saw a sight unique in Canadian papermaking. The wood supply clanking up the jackladder to be milled into paper was not the customary heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...