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prorectors checking beds drum-tight

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One of the graduate prorectors’ little tasks is supposedly to go around to different Subdorm floors and check the rooms for things like are the beds made up drum-tight, with unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap-replacing slackers

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Regimen discipline reaching past the court into the dorm room. Prorectors are "supposed" to check "are the beds made up drum-tight," with "unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap-replacing slackers." The academy governs the body around the clock: sloppiness in domestic habit is punished in the same currency as bad tennis — extra drills. The conditioning apparatus doesn't stop at the baseline; a loose toothpaste cap costs you laps. (The Nwangi-watching-Pemulis surveillance is character's.)

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