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First signs of relief from the critical housing shortage problem which has plagued University officials since the fall registration became evident yesterday in an announcement by the Freshman Housing office. The notice stated that in Stoughton and Hollis halls where "doubing up" caused the greatest hardship, the Yardlings would be allowed to file new room applications on the basis of two-to-a-room...
Turnbull, Andrew W., in charge of Stoughton, So. Eentry...
...Stoughton...
Living in Hollis or Stoughton this year, some yardling is sure to find himself believing that it is both unreasonable and insanitary to go putting 93-odd men into each of the two old buildings. He might feel these were too many people breathing a limited amount of air, too many unsocked feet befouling the evening breeze...
Actually, he never had it so good. He should have been in the Army--the Continental Army stationed in the American Theatre of Operations, circa 1777. George Washington put a few of his men up in Hollis and Stoughton for a night or two then, and although nobody knows whether or not double-decker bunkes were used, it is a matter of record that 640 soldiers slept, to to toe, in each of the two buildings for some length of time...