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...their own victory coming.They scrambled, they begged, and they even called on rugby alumnus Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 to raise the $10,000 for plane ticket to California. They pleaded with the Undergraduate Council for additional funds, but to no avail. The Harvard Athletic Department even refused to subsidize the ruggers—after all, they played a mere club sport.But under the tutelage of graduate student Martyn E. Kingston, the “fun-loving” bunch of ex-varsity athletes, many hailing from high school football and soccer careers...
...there,” Rinehart said with a slight smile on his face. “And so I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll see how this goes.’” After waiting for the tourists to thin out to no avail, Rinehart leaned into an alcove near a window, pulled out the ring, and proposed. “We stood there and enjoyed the moment for a little while until a woman who wanted to take a picture out the window asked us to move,” he said...
...Until then, campus activists will wage fruitless campaigns. They’ll pass out flyers and wear ribbons and march on the Yard, but to no avail. And they will likely ignore these words of caution, as they are convinced of the righteousness of their causes. Many protestors like to quote Frederick Douglass, who once said that those who want freedom without agitation “want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” But point out that these protests don’t make so much as a splash, and campus activists seem...
...most of this year's recipients--with the exception of a couple of Greenough groups--remained strangely apathetic, with one girl even shooing the earnest upperclassmen away from her door. The Quincyites made several attempts to infiltrate frosh rooms in order to elevate the excitement, but to no avail: most newbies stood around rather awkwardly, accepting their fate happily but not emoting much more...
...only be described by those who have been there. It is cruel. It is painful. In its wake lie nothing but tears, agony, and spent cans of Red Bull...ineffective as usual. Try as you may to flee to the sanctuary of The Onion, Youtube, or FML...to no avail: the VOID is a black hole that seeks to sucks the life out of any and all comers...