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Page 17 text:
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If is as hard to conceive of a car without wheels as of a college without its adminis- tration. And yet there is no group on campus more maligned, resented, or more often com- plained about. This year Miss Cobbs gained two assistants: Miss Wing and her secretary Mrs. Lingham. Dean Hunt received his baptism under water at the Freshman Serenade. When the annual fall massacre was postponed, the eager, frustrated Swarthmore male could not wait and stormed Parrish to be greeted there by torrents of aqua pura. Dean Hunt ' s wet reward for his valiant efforts to end the hostilities resulted in a severe cold which lasted all week. For the first time since the founding of the College in 1864, girls were allowed to re- main out until 1:30 A.M. on Saturdays. Typi- cal comments were, Twelve-thirty is bad enough with Swarthmore women, and From Swarthmore men I prefer to escape at 12 o ' clock. One member of the Administration was reported to have said, What can they do by 1:30 that they couldn ' t have done by 12:30? Miss Cobbs delivered an interesting lec- ture to Pittenger and Palmer women on The Evils of Sneaking In and Out. She emphasized the refusal to return to the Sunday Open House. However, the administration ' s recog- nition of the inadequacy of our informal facilities led to the construction of the new yellow Somerville Recreation Room on the site of the Women ' s swimming pool. The Men ' s Executive Committee, the official governing body for the men, feverishly looks over the affairs of the college ' s male popula- tion. Its subsidiary, the Men ' s Judiciary Com- mittee, arraigned, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced the less law-abiding of the gay young blades of Wharton and 9 TO 5 13
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Mary Lyons. Why did you throw the snow- ball through the window? Who put the toilet paper on the pine tree? Was it you who poured the concrete in the mail box? The proctors, headed by Dick Roeder, suc- ceeded somehow in their thankless task of patrolling the beat in the dormitories. The Women ' s Student Government fever- ishly looks after the affairs of the college ' s female population. The Conduct Committee was replaced by the Women ' s Judiciary Committee who arraigned, indicted, pros- ecuted, convicted, and sentenced the less law-abiding of the gay young things. Two minutes late on Friday night? You were seen holding hands in the lunch room What, did you wear make-up without permission? 1 952-53 witnessed a record number of campusings. 14
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