A coin telephone presents a challenge that Harvard freshmen cannot seem to resist. Last winter, students in Holworthy Hall pried the telephone away from the wall far enough to manipulate the coin mechanism, get a dial tone without using up their nickels. At Hollis Hall, residents tore a pay station off the wall and hung it on a classmate's door. These maneuvers turned out to be somewhat self-defeating since the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. removed the phones, but Harvard's freshmen were not discouraged. This spring the residents of venerable, 145-year-old Stoughton...
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