Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conversation overheard at breakfast...
Maricela Alcaraz, 22, was at breakfast with her mother and two younger brothers in their apartment on the south side of the city. The lamp above the kitchen table began swinging back and forth, casting strange shadows on undulating walls. "Oh my God!" Maricela shouted. Her mother jumped up, ordered the children to go into a bedroom and stay together. They could hear doors banging as the building trembled. "The whole world was shaking," Maricela recalled...
...From breakfast, it was on to the Harvard Provision package store, and groups monitoring the storm's inauspcious progress from the Kirkland archway cheered as friends wheeled keg after keg into the house...
This is inappropriate! It is obvious that students who arrive before breakfast on the 18th must pay for their meals until the meal plan begins. As I am sure you know, food is expensive, even at the Freshman Union which, the letter mentions, will serve upperclass men and women on a cash basis. In addition to the extraordinary required costs of attending Harvard College, this expense is a thoughtless oversight on Harvard's part, at best. At worst, it is indicative of blatant disregard for the welfare of its students...
...argue, nothing forces a student to arrive before breakfast on the 18th of September. This is an unrealistic argument. The reality is that registration occurs on the 18th of September between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and the said letter indicates that if a student "fails to register on the prescribed date [he] will incur a $40 charge and may be subject to disciplinary action." So it is obvious that Harvard openly forces students to arrive on the 18th. It is equally obvious to those who travel that such precision is not always possible. Targeting an arrival...