Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Exhibit number six: The Freshman Union. It was dank, dark and had antlers on the walls--imagine a final club that decided to breach its guest policy and invite 800 first-years for dinner. The old Union was admittedly more homey than the new Annenberg, but hardly an architectural triumph...
...Exhibit number three: The Harvard Lampoon. Harvard's comedy mafia currently write for The Simpsons and Conan C. O'Brien '85; as undergraduates, they wrote for the Lampoon; ergo, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine is funny. If only this syllogism were true. The Lampoon's reputation for comedy, much like Saturday Night Live's, rests on the belief that it once was very funny; whether it was ever all that funny, however, is up for debate. With a few notable exceptions, formulaic gags and random profanity don't make...
...Exhibit number four: The Tasty, Tommy's and the Kong. Harvard's late-night eateries are most famous for being...well...open late...
...Exhibit number five: Yale Weekend. Ah, the memories that will linger for eternity: driving down in an over-packed car to New Haven, watching football in the November rain, getting drunk, watching kids puke. Why do we rhapsodize this weekend of sub-par football and socializing...
...Exhibit number seven: Harvard legends. Peeing on John Harvard, sex in Widener and butter in the Union. What impact, if any, do they have on our day-to-day lives? To hear the Crimson Key Society tell it, you'd think that Harvard undergraduates spend their days debating the Three Lies like Talmud scholars. "But if the Three Lies were committed in haste, ignorance and laxity, then there were actually nine lies committed by the banks of the Charles River, when our forefathers were led out of captivity...What do you think, Todd...