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Reading period and exam period come twice a year to everyone in the Harvard community. Everyone, that is, but the gentlemen of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. While students attempt to make up back work, write papers, work out problem sets and read, Buildings and Grounds sticks to its year-round schedule. B & G's men remain busy at their usual tasks; painting students' rooms, varnishing woodwork in students' rooms, removing wallpaper in students' rooms, and cutting lawns outside students' rooms (during the spring). Perhaps the powers that be in Buildings and Grounds could find a better time for their work, like just before junior generals. Certainly they should take some steps to accommodate students in these troubled times.
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