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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When droves of non-Harvard students descend on Cambridge for the annual autumnal ritual of Head of the Charles, the Square to them seems alive and exciting. But for Harvard students, the weekend brings little more than a sigh of relief that the flood of warnings and flyers from house superintendents is finally over...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Batten Down the Hatches | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

Instead, it's for the prep school students who descend upon this city like a swarm of locusts, if locusts wore J. Crew barn jackets...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Head O'Charles | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...called Catholics who disagree with the positions set forth in the Catechism. I urge you; make yourself heard I'm listening for the shuffling of your shoes as you descend the Church steps...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Papa Please Preach | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

These members of the phylum Final Clubicus descend from obscenely wealthy ancestors whose names are inscribed on all important buildings. They are the people who will bar me from getting a job at the top 100 corporations in America, for having written this piece. Their strength, like that of Jockici, originates in their tendency to move about in herds. Later in life, this habit of moving and thinking in herds translates into many powerful connections, that provide a kind of affirmative action for the over-privileged...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: A Taxonomy of Harvard | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...afternoon, you could see a free show with live models and maybe get a glimpse of the couturier. Perhaps I got hooked when I saw Chanel herself surveying the defile, crouched at the top of that mirrored staircase on the rue Cambon, watching her models descend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Apr. 25, 1994 | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

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