Word: alumnus
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Perry Smith also spent a lot of time writing, but he too found time for non-literary events at the Lampoon Spooner, also a Lampoon alumnus, recalls that during Phool's Week, the organization's initiation period. Smith "dressed a Phool up as Santa Claus and had other Phools attack him in downtown Boston...
During a question and answer period, an alumnus holding aloft his official white 25th reunion beach hat urged his classmates not to wear the hats because they are manufactured in Capetown, South Africa...
...resulting silence, however, was quickly broken by sustained laughter when an alumnus proposed "not to wear the hats for reasons of style...
...aside my prepared remarks and in my mind, began to collect the salient points, the Yard turned over for freshman use in 1930, the presence of women since 1972. etc. Without waiting for a reply, however, the alumnus went to the heart os his concern. Was it still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift...
...story isn't surprising to anyone who has witnessed the annual migration of reunion classes and other nostalgic visitors. Its only special significance this year is personal; in a few days I'll be an alumnus, and I'm frightened...