Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...been standing in the line before Station Four, a thin dark boy twitching his papers. He was lying on his back now, flat in front of the dentist's chair, with the other men in his line circling nervously around him. The private and the doctor walked over and looked at the man, and came back shaking their heads. "They usually don't pass out until they see the blood," said the doctor. The line was moving again by the time the boy on the ground looked up and blinked...
There were, two men in Station Six, a doctor and another private. "Strip," said the private. We piled our shoes and socks and shorts on the floor, and put the little cloth bags on top of them...
...sign outside of Station Seven said "Neuro-Psychiatrist." I sat down on a rough wooden bench beside some more screens, then someone said "next man" and I walked around the screen and sat down opposite the psychiatrist. He asked me my name, address, and field of concentration, and what I had done the previous summer. Then he checked off some more spaces on the sheet and said "fine, fine." I heard him say "next man" as I moved up to Station Eight...
...Station Eight drew and tested blood. There were two men behind its screen, and they chanted "next victim" at frequent intervals. There were only a few more spaces on my sheet now; one of the men filled them in and pointed to a desk beneath a window with a line of men standing in front of it. The line moved quickly; I was soon at the desk...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, likes to tell about the time that the University made a deal with the city back in the thirties to trade the land where Lincoln Square fire station now stands for the property on which Littauer was built. Lincoln Square is now the center of all fire operations in Cambridge; its station contains the city's main fire switchboard. Littauer is, of course, the headquarters of the School of Public Administration. Cooperation paid off then. And two shrewd traders were bound to learn the lesson...