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...Hall from Winthrop House in the celebrated "Gore War." Students recorded their pleasure at having tutors in the Houses, known to invite undergraduates into their suites for "sherry parties." The College held a different attitude toward alcohol then, using it to enliven the undergraduate experience: The Houses themselves served beer readily at House parties and Christmas dinners...
...condemned Yale's "IBM system" of random housing assignments as inimical to true community. Ironically, it didn't take the administration's IBM system to challenge communal college life. The House system took its strongest blow from students themselves, pushing for diverse interests and bored with the prospects of beer parties, holiday plays and football matches. Lowell's House system may well have been meant for another age, one in which students enjoyed the same basic pastimes and believed the same basic ideas...
...largest class in the history of Harvard, more than half the class was veterans. Army khakis became very popular. Professor Sam Beer always wore a green Army trench coat. A lot of students, including professors, carried their books in green bags slung over the shoulder...
...Popular restaurants, aside from Jim Cronin's beer hall, included the Wursthaus, The Armpit, The Oxford Grille and Hayes-Bickford. Some of the older students organized permanent seminars in Salzburg where the intellectuals of Europe could meet those of the U.S. Some married students, who made up about one percent of the class, lived in Quonset huts...
Then why do so many locals feel they can't miss a game? Fan Gary Elliott, 56, has a theory: "Invite 10,000 Cajuns anywhere, serve 'em beer and tell 'em there's gonna be a fight, and they'll fill the place up." Chris Valicevic, 32, a fifth-year Gator, recalls that "when I first got down here, people would ask me if the fights were real. They figured we were doing some kind of TV-wrestling stuff. I asked them, 'Where do you think this blood's coming from...