Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...defender Brian Mahler, the No. 2 faceoff man in the country in the form of John Henry Flood, and two of the team’s top scorers, Evan Calvert and Greg Cohen, I was sure this year would be one of those losing campaigns we all chalk up to “a rebuilding year...
...anchored the Harvard offense for the evening with two scores. “I’m extremely disappointed in our performance,” Farrar said. “I know we can do better. And I know we will. Let’s chalk this one up, take the appropriate lessons from it, and make some adjustments.” Harvard will head to California for a series of spring break matches against Concordia, Redlands, and Cal Baptist before returning to the northeast on April 10th for a game at Connecticut College on April 10th. A rematch with...
...perceptions of happiness in various societies around the world, and ranks countries in order of contentment. At WDH, Weiner learns some of the cold, hard facts about the conditions under which we feel warm and fuzzy. East Asian cultures, he finds, report lower levels of individual happiness, which researchers chalk up to the overriding value placed on social harmony, while Americans "are guilty of inflating our contentment to impress." Married people and optimists are happier than singles and pessimists, women and men tend to be equally happy, and everyone is least happy on the way to work...
...there is good reason why hot dog vendors and tennis courts remain absent from the Yard. But Harvard’s precious few acres are there for students, not for tourists—and they have been the site of endless instances of public discourse throughout the centuries. Certainly chalk is no more foreign than black steel trash cans or Poland Springs delivery trucks, both of which enjoy free access. Chalk does not disrupt the equilibrium between artifact and organism that the Yard currently enjoys; it would, if anything, enhance...
...scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...