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...took a brief afternoon stroll over to the rustic booth that has been in the Dunster courtyard for the past week. The booth is called a sukkah, the traditional temporary Jewish "home" constructed for the seven-day holiday of Sukkot each fall...
That said, the Dunster sukkah has some problems. If you missed Sunday's festival (as I did), you would be hard pressed to know what in God's name that booth is doing in the middle of the courtyard. No signs hang on the makeshift walls, and I found no obvious notices around the house explaining the object and its purpose. Unless such displays are informative and accessible, they are of little worth, and possibly even offensive...
Every night I drank beer at Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading...
...make my way slowly through the crowd, past the High Times booth, past the marijuana paraphernalia stand. Eventually, I find myself in front of a T-shirt concession stand which, curiously, seems to be selling shirts with the logo of the Republican presidential tickets. As I wade in closer, though, it becomes clear that the shirt in fact reads "DOPE/HEMP '96". I'm relieved, and with my world view intact, I ride the crowd out toward the bandstand...
...couple of more creative students even rearranged the letters on the Dole sign to read OLDE--a fairly apt statement from a day devoted to the empowerment of youth. I even heard someone joke that the members of Harvard Republican club were actually going to devote their booth to campaigning solely for Kemp 2000 so that they would be taken more seriously...