Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chan's fans--more than 40 students crammed into the Canaday common room--responded to this obvious display of dorm spirit with boisterous cheers and screams. This study break, said Canaday D Proctor Carter Stewart, was a great success and a bonding opportunity...
What can be more difficult than cramming for a C.S.-51 final exam or writing a 30-page junior seminar essay? Cleaning up a trash-strewn dorm room--with just under 24 hours before your flight leaves Logan Airport--just might be an equally daunting task...
...machines are huge and, yes, scary to those who've never used them. But this fear can be overcome with the help of someone who has been there before. Bring a dorm-mate who is willing to show you the ropes...
...what of second and third and last? Lingering long in my mind will be the physical beauty of Harvard. During my first year, I used to walk through the Old Yard at dusk to catch the first lights as they gleamed from centuries-old dorm windows. These beacons provided comfort and an excursion for the mind: John F. Kennedy '40 lived behind one of these windows, and Ralph Waldo Emerson another, and Quentin Compson another, in William Faulkner's fiction and the collective Harvard consciousness...
While taking a nap in my Canaday F room, the wind (something I'm usually quite fond of) blew my alarm clock off its former resting place on my window sill to its final resting place on the steps of the dorm. Consequentially, my alarm clock broke into several pieces upon hitting the pavement. In my daze, I decided that this was an inconsequential occurrence and promptly slept, not surprisingly, for a long time. This must be the reason for the rule against removing window screens. The clock is in pieces just when I needed it the most. --Anonymous