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...Night watchmen defend the rule merely because it is "orders," as one expressed it, and they will often "make exceptions" in favor of students who are caught, thus making themselves the victims of the 8 o'clock rule, although one insists that "It was an Eliot House man called me a dirty name once and I swore I'd never let anybody out again...
...night last week, after work had been suspended for the day, watchmen passed through the air lock of the north tube, opened the door leading to the boring shield, were met by a blast of smoke. Inside a great, licking blaze, whetted by the high oxygen content of the compressed air, was feeding on timbers, sawdust and salt hay in the unfinished bore. Backing out through the lock, they found the telephone short-circuited, the elevator not running, had to climb ten flights of stairs up the ventilating shaft to sound an alarm...
...Lewis, and Minnesota's Governor Elmer A. Benson, got an official welcome from Vassar's tall, tolerant Henry Noble MacCracken. They were bedded in Main Hall, the men in one wing, girls in another. In the corridors between the two wings the college had prudently stationed watchmen. Among the delegates were Economist Stuart Chase's son Robert (Harvard). Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's niece Nancy (Swarthmore), Law Professor Felix Frankfurter's niece Ruth (Barnard), famed Lawyer Samuel Untermyer's grandson Frank (Cornell). Absent were A. S. U.'s executive committee members George...
Unfortunately for their cause, the night watchmen found them as they were exploring the colonnade, and one was promptly ejected as the other two escaped into parts unknown. According to the watchmen, they were "college fellows, all right," and one rumor indicated they were Brown men, out to paint the shining white goalposts the color of their Alma Mater...
Only 23 more times do the watchmen tear the pages off the calendar, and then it is Friday, September 24. The portals of historic Memorial Hall swing wide once more. Once more, in the three hundred and second year of Harvard, an entering Class, the Class of 1941, starts its course of Harvard history making...