Word: harvardiana
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Before you turn the page, I would like to present this issue's "Cheer of the Week" award to a cheer which I heard Saturday at the Coulumbia game. It goes to the creator of a remarkably melodic ditty, rich in imagery, and destined to enter the realm of Harvardiana--"Harass them, harass them, make them relinquish the spheroid...
Some hecklers from the audience may cry out, "Just how big is the drum?" If Johnny Carson had boned up on his Harvardiana and was here to answer he'd say, "Well, I'll tell ya, it's so big that it bears the distinction of being 'The Largest Playable Drum with Plastic Heads East of the Hudson.'" The hard data on the drum, puchased in 1955 for $4000, is that it measures seven feet in diameter...
...fell head over heels in love with Harvard and all its money-encrusted trappings, heavy-handed traditions, and self-conscious style when he was here. He seems unable to break away from his seemingly idyllic undergraduate days. Hence the creation of the Barretts, with their wealth and generations of Harvardiana. Oliver is the consummate Harvard hero--hip, smooth, and above all rich, an amalgamation of everything Segal apparantly admires. To foist Oliver on an unsuspecting world once is bad enough; to do it twice is almost criminal. If Oliver's Story continues to sell as well as its predecessor, Segal...
...Orange Line was serenaded with such classic fight songs as "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and "Harvardiana" from North Station to Washington Street Stations, as bewildered drunks and little old ladies looked on in amazement...
Tall, very athletic (he played varsity basketball at Sanford-"very badly," by his own admission), Bok draws on a seemingly endless well of energy. But for the most part, he likes to move outside the stuffy back chambers of Harvardiana and be with friends and his family...