Holyoke Coiffures Droop in Drought But Girls Spurn Shower-Share Plans

A share-your-shower-with-a-Mount-Holyoke-girl campaign gained rapid headway at Harvard over the weekend, as a steady stream of Dartmouth-game dates poured into Cambridge with sorrowful tales of the Connecticut Valley water shortage.

If the Holyoke coiffure appeared a little ratty Saturday afternoon at the Stadium, it had nothing to do with the New Look, but could be laid to the death of water in South Hadley mains. The girls probably hadn't washed their hair in several weeks.

Persistent fear of limited water allocation to supply the community until reservoirs are replenished gripped the Holyoke campus last week, but to date no water rationing has gone into effect.

Tighten Taps

Girls have been asked in a college decree, however, "not to let the water run while you're brushing your teeth," and to conserve the precious stuff in any other way possible. "I think we're going to end up by drinking Lower Lake," was the standard reply given by Holyokians when interrogated about the shortage.

A highly unreliable report stemming from Amherst said bath towel-clad girls had been seen knocking on the doors of the Lord Jeffs' fraternity houses.

Droughts Before

Back in September 1940, a similar shortage forced President Roswell G. Ham to issue a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital personal needs Baths and showers were out. The CRIMSON gallantly came to the rescue by wiring the Mount Holyoke Student Council that ". . . Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. . . Our showers are big enough for two, N.S.Y.P."

One of the girls replied to the "Crimson Guardians of Dirty Damsels in Distress":

"We'd gladly come with towels and soap

If with transportation you will cope."