“Let’s borrow bicycles and take a ride,” Amory suggested.
“All right. I’m not a bit tired and this is almost the last night of the year, really, because the prom stuff starts Monday.”
They found two unlocked bicycles in Holder Court and rode out about half-past three along the Lawrenceville Road.
“What are you going to do this summer, Amory?”
“Don’t ask me—same old things, I suppose. A month or two in Lake Geneva—I’m counting on you to be there in July, you know—then there’ll be Minneapolis, and that means hundreds of summer hops, parlor-snaking, getting bored—But oh, Tom,” he added suddenly, “hasn’t this year been slick!”.
This side of Paradise
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Built in 1909 as a large residential quadrangle on Nassau Street, Holder Hall was designed by Day & Klauder in the Collegiate Gothic style. It combines three wings of bedrooms with a fourth of vaulted cloisters and is dominated by the Holder Tower, recognizable by its pinnacles topped with four bronze tigers that also serve as weathervanes.
