Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't make any more sense than as a primary approach to swimming." He held instead that a simpler, more casual approach was a better way into the poetic experience, claiming that "writing poetry should be a little like being at a party. You dance, you drink, you flirt, and you don't have to come to any conclusions...
...didn't even last that long. John R. Dos Passos '16, in his novel The Big Money, tells the story of Hearst's leave-taking: "He tutored and went to Harvard where he cut quite a swath as business manager of the Lampoon, a brilliant entertainer; he didn't drink much himself, he was softspoken and silent; he got the other boys drunk and paid the bills, bought the fireworks to celebrate Cleveland's election, hired the brassbands, bought the creampies [sic] to throw at the actors from the box at the Old Howard, the cannon crackers to blow...
...fact that Harvard is not a fraternity-oriented school has much to do with the type of students who comprise the undergraduate population. Those students make individual decisions whether or not they wish to drink; this choice at a given party or event is personal, and it has nothing to do with the Universiy or its overly-lauded alcohol policy...
Nevertheless, Lewis's comments seem to reveal a hint of complacency about drinking at Harvard. True, no fraternities are recognized by the College. But has Dean Lewis forgotten our precious final clubs, also not recognized by Harvard, but where students drink the weekends away? Or the heavy drinking that occurs weekly at parties in private rooms? Or the annual, beverage-laden initiation ceremonies for sports teams and other officially-recognized organizations...
...response to Steffens? As I like to say in my daily online column: Wrong! Sure, some people shift in and out of stocks so rapidly that they undermine their returns. Some people also gamble compulsively. Others drink too much or abuse drugs. Overdoing anything can be hazardous. But overtrading is no more the fault of low-cost, online investing than America's swelling waistlines are the fault of its ever more efficient farmers...