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Toad’s forsaken for Bass

Library first stop on students’ Thursday night party circuit

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, October 19, 2007

Students started congregating at 11 p.m. over kettle corn and hot chocolate. At 11:59 and 50 seconds, the countdown began.

But nay, it was not New Year’s. It was the much-anticipated opening of Yale’s Bass Library.

Only at Yale, students said, would the opening of a library draw over 1,000 students to Cross Campus and spur a night of partying around campus.

As the minutes ticked down toward midnight — when the doors of the newly-renovated Bass Library were thrown open for the first time — excitement emanated from the hundreds of students on Cross Campus. So did the...

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