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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were three tables in the hall. On the chief table was a well built ship with sails spread, and before it sway a silver swan drawing the ship with a silver chair. At one end of the ship was richly built castle. Among the numerous ornaments was a church with cross, chimes and four singers. There was besides a beautiful fountain surrounded with cliffs of sapphire and other rare stones. Twenty living musicians played inside a huge pastry--a castle in the form of that of Lusignan. In an uninhabited desert a lifelike tiger fought with a great serpant...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: If You Think Your Mama Can Cook | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...ballroom. Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Pretty Maids All in a Row | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...clear that they were, though. The week passed in a frenzy, all chants and demands and marches and late-night deadlines. Vignettes: Derek Bok's frozen smile as he crossed the Yard, bureaucratic calm amidst a self-righteous storm; Dan Steiner chatting with protestors on the steps of University Hall, a few left-over torches burning down after the year's most spectacular protest march; the bemused set to the jaws of the University policement covering the demos, unsure of how to handle these kids who, they were told but did not quite believe, might try to grab a building...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...menu featured California grapes and orange julius drinks. Slides of the Golden Gate and of Big Sur flashed on a screen in the middle of the dining hall, and from the speakers blared, who else?, the Beach Boys. The old Harvard dark wood-panelled dining hall walls were plastered with airline odes to the joys...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dunster Goes West, Young Man | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...third possible site, Dudley House (Lehman Hall), is unlikely because the Dudley House Committee passed a resolution this week by a vote of 25-0 to "vehemently oppose the location of a college pub in Dudley House...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Location of Student Pub Is Still Under Discussion | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

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