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Funny thing, a hurricane. Winds whip at gale force. Massachusetts shuts down and prepares for the worst. And at Harvard, Gloria is cause for celebration. For the first time since the blizzard of 1978, and only the third this century, the University closed its doors. And the student body, well, it responded in good form...
State of Emergency? Nonsense. Just ask the students playing frisbee in staggering winds at the Quad, or the daredevils in front of Kirkland lofting footballs skyward as tree limbs crashed to ground nearby. In Adams House, residents feted Gloria with wine, cheese and Beethoven in the lower common room. And down by the Charles, Gloria's admirers were practicing the backstroke. No one dares dive into the tubercular river muck even on sunny days. But during a hurricane...
Hurricane Gloria rolled through Harvard around 3 p.m. yesterday, with winds of up to 97 m.p.h. knocking over a dozen trees and causing tens of thousands of dollars of property damage. But it carried nowhere near as big a punch as students and administrators had expected...
Along with the downed trees and powerlines, Gloria claimed an unexpected victim yesterday afternoon--the Undergraduate Council's normally sacrosanct election schedule...
Both the filing deadline for candidates and the election have been moved ahead a week because Gloria threw election organizers off schedule, council officers said yesterday...