Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Four teenish girls board at the Johnston Gate stop. They're drowning in A&F and Ann Taylor shopping bags. They sit in front and speak in faux-British accents. They talk of Boston and the Square, at a volume sufficient to drown out most of my other conversations. Finally, the driver surrenders; "What brings you to Boston?" he asks. The blonde begins to detail their vacation. The loudest of the four, a bandanna tied around her short dark curls, turns to a third and exclaims, "OOOOOH, YES! We have engaged the bus in conversation!" Hmph. Actually, I didn...
...Early on Saturday morning, Sherwood "Woody" McClelland '00 will be duking it out with Yale already--on the chess board. McClelland, the president of the Harvard Chess Club, and accredited "Life Master," will lead the Crimson as they vie for their eighth straight victory in as many years in The Chess Match. The match was first staged in 1909 and held discontinuously until 1986, at which point the teams deemed the rivalry worth renewing on an annual basis...
...board meeting Martha...
...significant contest for the players involved, it is, and always has been as much--or more--about the events surrounding The Game than the football game itself. It's Harvard meeting Yale. Whether it be in the parking lot, at the keg party or across the chess board, the events surrounding the game make the occasion such a festival. It's an opportunity for people who wouldn't otherwise be somewhere near center-stage to shine, in the band, on the radio dial, wherever. For that, The Game is, indeed, worth caring for, worth going to, and maybe even worth...
...Between the third quarter of the Brown game two weeks ago and the fourth quarter of the Penn game last week, Harvard has failed to put a single point on the board...