Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave Mem Hall and re-enter the Yard we soon come upon the famous statue of John Harvard. This is often referred to as the statue of the Three Lies. The statue is not of John Harvard, the date is wrong and he is not the true founder of Harvard College...
...traditions of Mem Hall have grown out of the countless exams that have been administered there. Some Harvard exam stories are true classics. One such involves a guy who was taking an exam in Mem Hall (and cheating on it), who walked up to turn in his blue book only to be told by the proctor that the gig was up, for he had been nailed committing his heinous crime...
Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...
...three lies are not enough, you could check out University Hall, the building directly behind the statue. University Hall might be called "The Building of the Many Obscurities." From this building come statements from Deans about such shrouded mysteries as "The Core" and "The Hot Break-fast Plan" and "The Housing Lottery." Why are these related? Because no one, including the Deans whose names are attached to the plants, knows the slightest bit about how the plans will work or how they will affect students...
...other quaint U-Hall tradition; it changes hands now and then when students here get mad enough about something, like they did nine years ago about Vietnam, etc. Sometimes students just sit down in front of the building and prevent access to it, as they did last year to protest the University's policy of retaining investments in firms with operations in South Africa. When there is a protest to be held, it is a tradition to hold it at University Hall, but don't expect the building or its inhabitants to pay much attention...