Word: greenough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longing to be married to "a Brutus," is right on the mark. "Tarts of the Arts"--by Paul Rosenberg and Ted Trimble--takes its cue from a familiar situation--a jaded senior, unable to find inspiration in his term paper, thinks back to "that night four years ago in Greenough" when three sleazy muses wrapped in feather boas slinked into his room to ask provocatively, "In the mood for some...conceptualization?... Wanna...toy with some ideas...
...Peabody's retrospect on 19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...
There are a few singles in the Yard, but they are all in the Union dorms, on the other side of the Union from the Yard. People who live in these all-male dorms get used to blank stares when they say they live in Pennypacker or Greenough, and Hurlbut residents are invariably asked if that isn't some kind of fish. The dorms are not really close to the center of the Yard, and people who live in them often feel isolated from its activities. But this usually disappears by the time the fall semester begins...
There are other stories. One resourceful proctor managed to transfer a non-athletic freshman out of the then jocky, preppy Greenough to the coveted sanctuary of a single room in Hurlbut. "I'll never forget him for that," the freshman vows fervently. Another proctor who had some sort of clout with the administration kept several kids miraculously off academic probation for the entire year. "I don't know how he did it," one of them marvels. "It was a beautiful sleight-of-hand...
...Freshman Division, Scott Cecil (Greenough) won in a time of 10:13, Dan Pierce (Thayer South) took second place and Brad Behrman (Mower/Stoughton) placed third...