Word: descend
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This weekend, hoards of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed high school students will descend upon campus for Harvard's annual Pre-Frosh Weekend. For three days, the University will make every effort to woo potential Class of 2003 members with dances, lectures and even recently sprouted tufts of grass. To those of you who were already lured to the University a couple of years ago, your best behavior would be appreciated. Keep a smile plastered on your face, point the pre-frosh in the right direction when they have lost their way and take a few minutes out of your schedule...
HARVARD'S A CAPPELLA groups had better be practicing this week. When hundreds of pre-frosh students descend on campus this weekend, the one thing they will have seen at all the colleges they visit is an "a cappella jam." Harvard features a cappella performance, as does Yale, Brown, Stanford, Tufts, and University of California at Berkeley, among others. In fact, the only other constant across the board is a pre-med information session. Pre-frosh cannot help coming away with the impression that college is about two things: catchy harmonizing and organic chemistry...
Grab that Fly-by and have a peaceful lunch before the hordes of high schoolers descend upon Cambridge for a midday organ recital by Daniel Forger and Iris Lan. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. 495-9400. 12:15 p.m. FREE...
Thanks to Andrea, the scholars of the convent decide to invent a story about a gathering of history's greatest minds in New Orleans. The unfolding of their story effects the fabric of reality, and the great minds descend on Louisiana, sent there by heaven to pass judgment on the world in what is, perhaps, the novel's weakest link...
...great minds are reincarnated in the bodies of the city's residents. At one point the spirit of Nicola Tesla "screws" itself into the skull of a wino "like a genie into a bottle." The spirits of Karl Marx, Ovid, Aristotle and Albert Einstein, among many many others, also descend on the city. Almost laughable, these passages only serve to add to a growing sense of dissatisfaction with where, if anywhere, the plot is heading...