Word: comped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 8, 1993. Do you know what a "comp...
...course you do; this is Harvard. Maybe you're comping something yourself. After all, this is fall--season of the comp. Comptober...
...where are you, then? Have you made the first cut? Been invited to the first you-may-already-be-a-winner cocktail party for comp finalists? And if you're comping The Harvard Crimson, have you done your required "Tommy's run" yet? (Remember: that's two Sweet-n-Lows, two creams in Pat's coffee...
...been thinking about the word "comp." It's a sinister word: it rhymes with "stomp" and "whomp." "Comper" sounds like my last name. During the news comp, I was called "Molly B. Comper" by some of the executives...
There's something else about that word, comp. What does it stand for? I've heard that it used to be short for "competition" but that sounded too scary. So someone, perhaps someone at Room 13, changed it to the gentler term, "competency." I'm not sure "competency" is a nicer word. It's certainly doesn't clarify anything. When you comp an extracurricular here, what kind of "competency" are you proving? It would depend on the extracurricular, of course. I have my suspicions...