Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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SIDELIGHTS Parlor, bedroom, and kitchen is Just a synf onym for at home in Trowbridge, Their rooms are where the dorm girls study, indulge in loetweenfmcal snacks and midnight spreads, and -:tcal a live to live-thirty snooze in the afternoon lt may have a few disadvantages, but it has com- panionship and fun, and its 'flioiiio' Sundays and evenings after dinner, or at house meetings, informal groups gather in the parlcrs to play the piano and sing before beginning more serious efforts of concentration on history and philosophy. Such groups as these are a not too frequent sight around Trowbridge and should be promoted ofteneri Frequent visitors of the smoking room tell us we must label this the Den of lniquity lnhabif tants of this favorite camping ground have their own code ot ethics in the form of twelve rules nailed tc the door, a volunteer tire brigade, and a never-ending game of bridge. The room serves as a beauty parlor, newspaper Cto get the latest gossipll, reading room, study hall, game room, art gallery, and oh, yes-a smoking room' The Trowbridge beauty salon enjoys a flour- ishing shampoo and finger-wave business, with an especially gratifying rush before formals. Although customers are often required to wait patiently, with hair dripping, while the operator talks on the phone, the finished product is gen- erally conceded to get results .

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'b 7- welcomed Trowbridge Dear Ruthie: Really, its awfully hard to give you a picture of our life here in Trowbridge, but since you plan to come here next year l'll try to tell you something about it. Because you'll be a freshman, you'll of course be initiated by the dorm girls, then too, there is the matter of tele- phone duty, and the traditional Christmas answer, Mary Trowbridge, Merry Christmas all in one breath. Serenades by the frosh fellows, mail from home fand checksl, reducing exercises, figur- ing out how to make the ceiling stay up when you decorate for house formals, studying for exams, midnight spreads, and a roommate from whom to borrow clothes will all make up your life. Of course, you'll experience a few pie-beds and find cracker crumbs when you crawl into bed all worn out from cramming for finals. Don't fall prey to the favorite phrase, just one more hand or youfll find that you have a maior in bridge instead of history! The Christmas dinner with candles, turkey, and carols is always swell, and there is nothing on earth that seems as good as the tea Miss Boys serves every afternoon during exam week. l'll never forget when limmy's Butch produced nine white baby rats, we really ex- pected a banner headline in the lndexl So you see, regardless of WHAT happens, some- thing always happens in Trowbridge, jglffxy 98 Dr. Chase s

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l HOBEN HALL, in spite ot the newness of its structure, has many activities carried over from the Williams and Stockbridge days. Each year, two dances are held at l-lobenp there is a closed Thanksgiving party, and a Christmas celebration when the men exchange gitts-ahl sweet memories of last December. In the tall, the lounge is the scene of a reception given for the men of the faculty. For the uninformed, the structure of the building is in the shape of a C -it a C had square corners-thus producing what is fondly referred to as the North and South wings. Then the architect tucked a sturdy partition immediately in the middle ot l-loben Csome say it tends to discourage egg rolls which might be celebrated from North to South and vice versa if the whole length of the hall had been lett enticingly openl, lUO