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YARDLINGS SEEK PHONEY FOR ADMISSION TO LOWELL HOUSE

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"Damn these lousy Freshmen!" was the chagrined battle-cry of David B. Aldrich '40, and Norman D. Blotner '40, both of Lowell H-41, as the seventy-third Freshman slouched desolately away after not finding Nelson Gildersleeve '40, not home across the hall in H-43, but knocking on their door.

After climbing four fights of stairs to see Gildersleeve, "member of the Committee," whose alleged job is to interview Freshmen who want to be admitted to Lowell House, one Yardling puffed: "Why in the world does a House Master live way up here?"

Gildersleeve, neither the House Master nor a member of the "Committee," is dodging would-be Lowell ledgers by nursing a cold in Stillman Infirmary.

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