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...residents are not on Harvard's meal plan, so all food is prepared by students. Other chores, such as helping the cook, cleaning the dining room, the kitchen, and living areas, and buying food, are allocated on a point system. House residents must accumulate a certain number of points each semester in order to carry their weight...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: A Harvard Reunion, Co-Op Style | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard paid a cook to prepare food; later, "we paid girls from the Radcliffe co-ops or from Lesley college to cook," said Erickson, a three-year resident of the co-op. At one point, after then-President Nathan M. Pusey's Swedish cook became dissatisfied with her job, she was conviced to cook for the co-op. "She cooked here for a year or two," said another former resident. "The food was good, but we had Swedish meatballs...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: A Harvard Reunion, Co-Op Style | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...There is also snake milking, butchering, gutting and skinning, the last done with the help of visibly squeamish volunteers from the beauty pageant dressed in blood-spattered lab coats. Three-dollar bus tours for those who want to see the snakes in their natural habitat leave every hour. A cook shack is busy producing corn dogs ($1) and deep-fried rattlesnake meat ($1). Take a bite; it tastes like turtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: A Local Spring Rite | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

University of Rhode Island pitcher Steve Murphy added a slider to his pitching menu only three weeks ago. But yesterday, Murphy's new-found pitch helped cook the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rams Batter Batsmen | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

While he had been a terrific player for ten years, known as a lethal base runner and horrible loser, Robinson was considered a little volatile. One famous night at a diner, he showed a pistol to a quarrelsome cook who was directing Robinson's attention to a meat cleaver. The lithe outfielder -- marked down as "an old 30" by Cincinnati management -- was dispatched to Baltimore, where that watershed summer he hit .316 with 122 runs batted in and 49 homers, not including the one that won the Orioles' first World Series. Over the five prosperous seasons that followed, his competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Times in a Proud Town | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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