Evening star., 1935-07-02
College Transients' Abode May Be Model
Dormitory Without Noise Is Studied by Relief
Officials as Guide.
BY w. H. sHIPPEN, Jr.
TAKE it from the policeman on
! the beat, the worlds best
/ behaved college boys live at

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the beat, the worlds best
behaved college boys live at
- No. Logan circle!
No whoops, wheeees or whoopees, nc
midnight harmonies or midnight lights
issue from the austere windows of that
ancient, red-brick residence where SO
students from the four corners of the
United States have domiciled them
selves.
No collegiate motor cars clatter up
parties embark for night clubs to re-
turn in the smallest hours and the
talleSt spirits.
Curfew for radio and piano alike is
10 O'Clock and the lights 60 out 80
minutes later.
Game Here to Go to Work"
Those guys over there said the
park policeman, swinging his stick to-
ward the Victorian facade of the
old dwelling didn't come here to go
to college-they came here to go to
work! Not a complaint have had
from them, and it's been six months
now!"
All of which, it developed later was
on account of strict adherence to the
constitution of Logan Dormitory, resi-
dence of the Volunteer Cooperative
Students of the District TransientS'
Bureau, F. E. r. A.
The constitution was one of the
first tasks of the cooperating stu
dents when they sold their idea to
the head of tine Transients' Bureau
last December and received permis-
sion to move into the three story resi-
dence. formerly the home of reli-
gious charity.
Only three students were in this
morning to show the constitution to
their visitor-the others were attend
ing Summer school classes at Catholic
University, at Webster Americaniza-
tion School and at various institu-
tions throughout the city.
Constitution Displayed.
The Reception Committee was some
what embarrassed at first 1t could
not Immediately locate the consti-
tuition, but at length the original
draft. since amended to embody new
restrictions, was brought from its
resting place in a golden oak dresser
which had seen better days.
This document, on the basis of
which the students had set up their
own government-legislative, judicial
and executive-laid down laws Of de-
pertinent violated only once in his
tory. The violator was hailed before
the Ruling Committee of Five, tried,
found guilty and banished from Lo-
gan Dormitory.
The first paragraph of the consti-
tuition set the rising hour as $50 am.
This might seem early to some stu
dents. However, the next paragraph
clarified, if it did not modify. the
rigor of the first.
1t held this early rising hour nee
essary to allow all beds to be made
and all rooms cleaned for inspec-
ton before breakfast.
The constitution set up the office
of inspector and put teeth in the law.
The inspector was authorized to hail
violators before the committee, which
could deprive them of weekly passes
to the movies or, in more serious
cases, send them back to the tram
sients' bureau.
Study Hours Established.
Quiet or study hours were estab-
lished in morning and afternoon on
school days. mo stomping," the con-
stitution proclaimed, mo running up
and down the stairs, no piano or radio
playing"
The boys were assigned to policing
duty in bath rooms, corridors, furnace
room and kitchen. Others waited
table. stocked the furnace or helped
the cook and dishwasher. These lat
ter two are the only paid jobs at the
dormitory.
The students have done consider
able repair work to the building, such
as scraping five layers of wall paper