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"Meals in bed," Petty, Varga, and the best of the Renoir girls to replace portraits of "glum Harvard greats" in the Union, and open-house for both sexes in dormitory rooms was demanded in the latest Freshman petition, better known as the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Class of '44," which appeared yesterday in the Freshman Dining Halls.

That the parietal rule forbidding women in the rooms suggested something "unmentionable," and that Freshmen wished girls in their rooms merely to discuss "interesting intellectual problems" was the Yardlings' latest thrust at Dean's Office rules.

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