The most entertaining thing I saw today (by far) was this report from June of 1950 about how the telephone system in the dorms worked. Prepared at the request of Building and Grounds chairman George Brown, it describes what today sounds like a labor intensive Rube Goldberg machine. It’s only four pages long so I reproduce the whole thing here in hopes that you enjoy it as much as I did:
They seem to have followed these recommendations, by the way.
Bonus:
