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...from the box at the Old Howard, the cannon crackers to blow out the lamps of herdie cabs with, the champagne for the chorines [chorus girls]. He was rusticated [suspended] and finally fired from Harvard, so the story goes, for sending to each of a number of professors a chamber pot with the professor's portrait tastefully engraved...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

Harvard Independent - Co-Editor-in-Chief; Teaching Fellow - CS50, CS161, CS141; PBHA - Food Salvage and Mission Hill After School Program; Computer Lab user assistant, Extension School; Toscanini Chamber Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1999 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFFE CLASS MARSHALS | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...their side, Democrats risked much by passing Clinton's bold package of tax hikes in 1993. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a freshman elected by a fluke from a G.O.P. district, reluctantly cast the vote that put it over the top in the House. Republicans on the other side of the chamber waved their hankies at her and chanted, "Bye-bye, Margie." (Sure enough, she was gone in the next election, along with many other Democrats who had come to town on Clinton's coattails.) The Senate passed the package by a single vote as well, and the fight was even uglier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton and Congress: A Bad Marriage | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Harvard has five active orchestras: the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO), Bach Society Orchestra (BSO), Toscanini Chamber Orchestra (TCO) and the Pops Orchestra...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For First-Year Musicians, Selecting the Right Orchestra May Be Confusing | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Montana State University's football stadium, local collegiate rodeo boosters were drowning their sorrows elsewhere. M.S.U., which played host to the College National Finals Rodeo for 25 years until 1997, almost had the lucrative, week-long competition back for June 1999, much to the pleasure of the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. But once it became clear that the rodeo's big-money sponsor, U.S. Tobacco, planned to hang signs in the arena and hand out free samples of that cowboy staple, Copenhagen and Skoal chewing tobacco, the American Lung Association took out full-page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco Wars | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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