Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want you to take it down. Now." The woman was standing outside my door on the stairwell of Holworthy Central. At first I thought I was being propositioned, but after a moment I realized that she was talking about the banner my entry mates and I had made and hung outside out windows...
...only been at Harvard for a week, but I had heard and read in The Crimson before coming here that it was a longstanding tradition for groups to give free tickets to their events to Holworthy residents in return for having advertisements on banners hung out their windows. The banner my entry had made the previous night didn't advertise anything except ourselves, and I thought that perhaps that was the reason she wanted it down...
...banner came down, and our resentment rose. We had labored for hours on the colorful bed sheet, and in the process we had bonded as an entry. Now as a group we felt we had been wronged. It seemed ridiculous that a bed sheet flapping in the wind could in any way hurt the brick and wood...
...captain Khris Reina, carrying the banner of the upperclassmen, won the 158-pound weight class...
They are gone, we know that, as all seniors eventually must fade from the bench. But last night's performance was the first time that this year's blueliners announced their intention to wave the Harvard banner of defensive supremacy with all the authority of those that went before them, and you can't downplay the significance of such a statement...