Cambridge winters can always be counted upon to turn out hundreds of rusted bicycles and badly weathered motor scooters and cycles. If Radcliffe and Harvard provided adquate shelters, this depreciation of undergraduate property could be avoided.
At the 'Cliffe, girls may now rent canvas bicycle covers for four dollars a year. These, however, do not protect bikes well and are themselves buried under the first big snow. At the Houses and in the Yard there are no shelters for motor scooters or for bicycles.
The College and 'Cliffe administrations could easily reduce the money and safety costs which undergraduates pay for weather depreciation of their bikes and scooters by constructing simple wooden or metal roofed bicycle racks near Radcliffe dorms, and by sheltering a few of the present motor scooter parking areas near the Houses.
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