Playing games at Jillian's Boston on Lansdowne Street. Photo by Liz Linder

 

 

 

 

 

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Recreation in 1913 meant heading to the basement of the Y for candlepins or a rack of pool. In 1941-back when people still knew how to dance-couples hoofed it to the Play-Mor ballroom. Students played Ping-Pong in the new Student Center in the mid-'60s, but in the '90s, they favor playing "Mind Shaft" at a virtual reality arcade near Kenmore Square.

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