Word: housebroken
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...trafficking in emotions. After all, how can an insurance check for a few hundred dollars come close to replacing one’s trusty old college futon, spilled on after a particularly rambunctious meal, stained from a singularly ill-advised nocturnal encounter, or torn apart from an unfortunately un-housebroken pre-frosh? Sentimental value is more than a cliché. Especially to college students who leave the College with nothing but their ratty futons and memories. We will not, cannot, and must not give in to Collegeboxes and HSA’s persistent e-mails or the frighteningly chipper customers...
...that Summers—under Rubin’s tutelage—had learned to hold his tongue. “Summers very much went from being perceived as ‘the bull in the china shop’ to ‘the bull who has been housebroken,’” Henderson says...