Word: harvard
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...hundred years ago, Harvard students had much for which to be thankful. Harvard had defeated Yale 17-0 and in the victory party that ensued President Eliot made a stirring speech to students crowded around a roaring bonfire. Students today may be wishing they could transport themselves back to such joyful times. Over the long years since then, Thanksgiving has had a rocky history at Harvard...
...instance, Thanksgiving was a grim affair in the fall of 1962. On Nov. 20 of that year we bemoaned the divisive nature of the Harvard dining halls calling them, "as complicated and mutually restrictive as the customs system of the German states before the Zollverein." Almost 40 years later, Harvard students may still empathize with that sentiment...
Only seven years later, in 1969, Thanksgiving apparently failed to occur at all at Harvard, students being too busy protesting by occupying the dean's office to notice the passing of the nation's most popular holiday...
This year, the few, the proud and the far-from home will be dining together in the culinary capitol that is Quincy House. The rest of the Harvard community, per a long tradition, will be flying, or driving (and for some locals, walking) back home for the long weekend...
...Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) promised last spring that it would provide students with their own customizable Web "portal" pages with information pertinent to their lives at Harvard by the beginning of this school year...