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Many of us have had similar experiences--standard reactions to admitted Harvard undergraduate status seem to include: the impromptu vocabulary quiz, the "Wow, you must be really smart," and, for the comedian, the "Is it hard work there? Ha, ha," and the "Harvard? Never heard of it, ha, ha.' "If I had a nickel for every time somebody said, 'Oh, I've heard of that...'" adds Lidsky...
...finally over. Dartboard heaved a sigh of relief this week as our housing lottery came to its epic, grinding conclusion. After weeks of perplexing dining hall conversations, Dartboard had grown frustrated. The things we heard went so far as actually sitting down and going through the entire house facebook in an attempt to place each person in a rooming group and thus figure out the total number of rooming groups of every size, so as to compare this figure with the number of available rooms...
When he casually draped his arm over her, other students began to take notice. But when he progressed to neck-nibbling and kissing, a faint giggle arose from the balcony. We've heard of public displays of affection. We've even witnessed some pretty egregious cases. But we've never seen anyone getting it on in clear view of over 800 people and a world-renowned professor...
Patriot's Day marks the April 19, 1775, "shots heard round the world" fired at Lexington and Concord. Ready and armed due to the night rides of William Dawes and the poetically more famous Paul Revere, the Minutemen took aim at British soldiers and pushed Boston and the 13 colonies into...
...footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial history had served as the seat of government since 1769--heard of the shots in Lexington, ejected tea-drinking students and prepared to host the first meetings of the Continental Army...