Word: comp
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Arriving at Harvard, Updike did comp the Lampoon, contributing a steady stream of cartoons, comic poems, and sketches and rising quickly through the ranks of editorship. By the beginning of 1953, after bearing the titles “Narthex” and “Ibis,” Updike was elected the publication’s president...
...Treasurer Costello have become masters at anything during their 3,000 days in government, it's been how to turn their brand of conservatism - quiet economic reform and blunt social populism - into a winning electoral strategy. Howard's team is like a great football club that's won the comp - and then gets to write the rules for the following season...
...Something changes dramatically in the second year of college. Easy introductory lectures turn into intense tutorials where reading is actually required. Teams and clubs no longer welcome you as a newcomer at a friendly comp meeting; instead, they work to push you as far as possible from upperclass leadership positions. Failed internship applications—last year remedied by a summer job at the pool—now become serious impediments to all future career advances. Sleep appears as often as a sunny Cambridge day; roommates actually make you wish you were still living with your parents; weekly love life...
There’s the running joke around campus that the best reason to go to a basketball game is to watch the halftime show. There’s the Lampoon’s comp poster that featured the squad. There’s the newest simile to enter the Harvard lexicon—“she looks like a dance teamer...
...What I really hate is that you can’t take higher level courses like ‘Comp. Lit. 220’ and have them count for Lit and Arts A,” says Victor Y. Gao ’04. “For people who have experience and want to be able to do something higher, they should be able...