Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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A bull - session before the lire- place. ln either ot the wings below the first floor, are game rooms where the lads release their pent-up en- ergy in rousing games ol billif ards, ping-pong, Tunic, fan-tan, pool, and bridge. A real crop of experts is emerging as a result of many hours whiled away in this last-named sport, One flight up is what is usually referred to as The spacious lounge ot- ibut it really ist where receptions are held and dances given. During Homecoming I-loben en- tertains with open house activi- ties, and everything is whipped into shape for the approving eyes ot the co-eds who peer reticently into the rooms. House government is presided over by a president who is elect- ed each semester. William Burt and Lewis Neelands shared the honors this year. Meetings are held once a month followed by sings into which every member enters enthusiastically. Gilmer Robinson is house director. At home in one of the comfortable rooms lOl ,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

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