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...past, many an undergraduate must have gazed into the darkened interior of Lamont Library at night after 9:45 or on Sundays, and wished fervently that every College administrator would pin these words above his desk and meditate upon them daily. Then the undergraduate would sigh hopelessly and trudge back to his dormitory, often to join in the noise-making that prevented concentrated study. To this student, it must have seemed that the Library existed for the convenience of its staff. His demands for longer Lamont hours were met with the explanation that keeping the Library open would be prohibitive...
Undaunted by this problem, various local authorities have squirmed out from under the fenders recently to offer various solutions. High on their list, of course, is the standard reaction of throwing both hands up into the air and declaring--with a disgusted sigh--that one of these days the University will have to restrict undergraduate cars. This point of view, though it has a certain mathematical logic, is simply unacceptable to most members of the University. A hands-off policy toward student cars has long symbolized Harvard's desire to treat its students as adults, and no one wants...
This delicious ambiguity, designed to keep the boy in continual tension, is one of the refinements we collegians have added to what was once a pretty straightforward game. Trying to be honest for once, you let escape a blissful sigh. There went that date, daddy-o. "You beast! You're enjoying it!" She recoils like a snake. Remember the rules: you decide what to do, but she decides...
Then I found it--"Social Science I"--any idiot should've known what Sock Sigh...
This Sock Sigh One prof, it said, was "universally condemned as in previous years" for his "completely irrelevant or utterly useless lectures" which were "unprepared, disorganized and rambling"...besides he told "unfunny dirty stories"... Typical appellations were "inept, insulting and an intellectual sloth...