Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There can be no time to savor the well-deserved victory over Boston College for the members of the Crimson hockey team. Even as Boston Garden employees scrape away the last traces of Monday night's ice, Harvard will be tested once again--tonight versus Cornell...
...talking about the first two Mondays in February, about over-priced beer in undernourished containers, about the closest thing to summit talks between Harvard, B.C., B.U. and Northeastern. We're talking about last night at a wild Boston Garden, about a Green Line that turned people into sardines, about the 25th rendition of the Beanpot hockey tournament. Mostly, though, we're talking about BEANS...
Which brings us back to last night at the Garden and the first round of the Beanpot. It's not the Pot tourney, although the performance of some of the participants did lead one to believe that they were higher than the Celtics' World Championship flags which dangle from the rat-infested rafters...
...been that way since 1952, when Harvard triumphed in the first Beanpot tourney at the Boston Arena. After a year's sabbatical, the competition resumed in 1954 at the Garden, where it has since remained...
...next time you're served beans, take a close look. Think of last year's Beanpot, contested the day before you had an English final, and think of how you had to memorize Civil Disobedience in the men's room at the Garden (that rustle was Thoreau doing chin-ups in his grave). We're talking about a fond memory. We're talking about one hell of a legume. We're talking about BEANS...