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...went in hope of securing an inheritance from her late Peruvian father. The money was denied her, but Tristan was dauntless, the sort of woman who would later dress as a man to investigate conditions in London slums and sponsor a contest for composers to write a new anthem for the working class...
...Thanksgiving Day, my family went to the big Barnstable-Falmouth game. It was warm and bright; the marching band played the national anthem, the Barnstable High School fight song, and then, at intervals, the “hey” song. The cheerleaders clapped rhythmically, bounced from foot to foot, and tried, unsuccessfully, to engage the crowd in call-and-response chants. When, for the first time since 1996, Barnstable lost, my brother says the other football players cried. “It’s weird how much it mattered to them,” he said...
...former expression has become an anthem for Mawuena M. Agbonyitor ’04, a social anthropology concentrator in Mather House. Sitting on her bed to avoid the work building on her desk, she listlessly flips through TV channels. “Cold, gray and tired”—these are the words that describe her day-to-day Harvard malaise. “I honestly don’t know anyone who likes it here,” she says. “Everyone is waiting...
...Bright Hockey Center student following was typically fickle this weekend. There were six students in Section 11 for the national anthem Friday night, but by the end of the game Saturday, two sections were packed with students, all on their feet...
Despite the fact that there were six students—yes, I counted them—in Section 11 during the national anthem, this campus does have an interest in hockey. After Friday’s game, people asked me, “What’s wrong with the hockey team...