Word: coops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SOME OF YOU will be content to spend four years buying only the books handed to you by the Coop, books that your professors have requested as the most suitable to nurture and develop your fledgling mind. Even if it is possible to get through Harvard without opening a non-Coop book, you are still beating the national average. "Only three percent of the population bought a book last year," claims Michael Patrick, manager of McIntyre and Moore, a used bookstore at 8 Mt. Auburn Street. "Less than half of those bought used books...
Membership at the Coop is a pretty good deal, the Quad isn't really that far away, heterosexuals too live at Adams, and the Harvard Football Team is pretty good...
...Cantabridgian commuters eager to put an end to their work days. But for twenty-five year-old Tony Throne the work is only beginning. Throne, a local street performer, pounds on his drum set--a homemade contraption of plastic buckets and dented metal casserole dishes--in front of the Coop. Though most people hurry by Throne with scarcely a glance, no one within a three-block-radius is oblivious to the seemingly incessant pounding of his bass bucket. Pimply pit rats nod their heads in cool appraisal of the rhythm; an elderly lady plugging her ears shoots Throne a contemptuous...
Sure, the prices may seem a bit high at first. After all, many of us arrive at Harvard accustomed to soap and toothpaste magically reappearing in our bathrooms at home. When competition includes the like of the Coop, though, where is the justification for our complaints? Check out these prices: $19.99 for an economy pack (36 condoms) of Trojan-Enz with spermicidal lubricant. Oh-so-personal personalized Create-A-Cards ("Now you can personalize one from you and your pet") for only $3-50. $3.99 each for Pooh conditioning shampoo, Owl anti-bacterial soap and Tigger bath bubbles for those...
...litter of puppies in your room, no mater how big it is. Phew! Boy, would it stink! You need to either give Rover away or get rid of the puppies as quickly as you can. I don't suggest a violent method. Sell them and pay off your Coop bill! Or, if you're feeling generous, you could give them to the three or four proctors that don't have dogs...