Word: froshes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news that Light’s book contains a glowing anecdote about band does not surprise anyone milling around in the band room in the basement of the Office of the Arts building on Mt. Auburn St. a few minutes before noon on a Saturday. It is pre-frosh weekend and a modest number of “bandies”—member of the band—have showed up to play in front of Byerly Hall in the hopes of getting some new blood...
...Garden Street side lawn of Byerly Hall the hordes of eager pre-frosh that Katcher and his companions were hoping for don’t arrive. There are a few young families, some little girls spinning around to “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” and it occurs to me, happily, that they can’t tell that this is the first time I’ve ever warn this spiffy maroon jacket...
...someone decides that we should march through the Yard. Some bandies start to grouse. I guess not everyone is as totally, freakishly elated to be in a band uniform as I am. They, after all, probably wore theirs all football season. But the point was to play for pre-frosh, to recruit for next year, and so a Yard-jaunt seems reasonable. I have a stupid grin on my face the whole time. We play “10,000 Men of Harvard” which involves singing in both Latin and English. I am singing in Latin while banging...
Unfortunately, wide-eyed pre-frosh were misled into the false belief that we have a thriving campus social scene. Au contraire. The painful reality is that last weekend was an anomaly—a sore thumb of fun. Between the twin weekend pillars of The Game and Prefrosh Weekend, there is a vast emptiness of lackluster Fridays, silent Saturdays, and siesta Sundays. the College often seems like the Un-College; campus-wide events, parties and concerts are few and far between...
...West Wing” attracts audiences of all types—particularly Harvard’s many government junkies, not to mention those who think actor Bradley Whitford is hot. The show’s devoted fanbase pulled in many excited pre-frosh, including Matthew T. Valji, who thought it was “such a cool event—it really shows Harvard’s clout...