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...first floor has a large common room equipped with magazines and chess boards, a study room, a radio and phonograph room, and the cafeteria itself. In the basement are a large locker room and a ping-pong room...
...Dudley Hall as a commuters' center has done much to alleviate the situation. Meals are offered at very low rates, and lockers, study halls, radios, ping-pong tables, and a common room are provided. But Dudley Hall is forced to work on a limited budget, and the facilities afforded the commuters are vastly inferior to those in the Houses and the Union. Despite the excellent work which is being done at the commuters' center, many of the original problems still exist, and most of them cannot be solved under present conditions...
...Ping-Pong. Venereal infection during World War I cost the Army 6,500,000 man-days (time lost in hospitals). Military police patrol towns as best they can, mark the most putrid spots "out of bounds." Military medicos provide soldiers with oral caution beforehand, treatment afterward, encourage local authorities to provide free prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that...
...gentlemen (all, for no particular reason, Catholics) do all right too. Twice a year, like the ladies, they get a tank car of linseed oil with which to speculate. When business is slack they retire to a game room, play ping-pong and poker on company time. All but three have relatives on Scientific's staff-a compact nepotism summed up by O. E. with parental pride: "It's a Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance payroll and never lets the ball get out of the infield...
Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...