Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN at Harvard traditions must be run over by the wheels of progress. The recent decision to ban beer kegs from Freshman dorms shows that University officials recognize this need for change. Such ancient undergraduate rites of passage as playing Donkey Kong by rolling empty kegs down the stairs of Weld Hall or maneuvering through 30 people crammed into a Holworthy bathroom around the keg in the shower will not be remembered, let alone missed by future Harvard students...
Young though it is, the microbrew industry already has its rivalries. The highest status is claimed by the smallest producers. Uli Bennewitz, co-owner of the Weeping Radish Bavarian Restaurant & Brewery on Roanoke Island, N.C., prides himself on his Hopfen beer, which is so fresh it never enters a keg. "We brew it in one room and pipe it right into the next," he says. That might seem much too limited to Jim Koch, whose Boston Beer Co. sold 24,000 bbl. of Samuel Adams lager last year. Purists may look askance at Samuel Adams because it is a "contract...
...Undergraduate Council last night addressed an expansive agenda in which they recommended a letter calling for the divisibility of Social Analysis 10, the hiring of buses to carry students to New Haven for Yale Weekend, and a campuswide, 20-keg party in December...
...makes the distinction to ward off any suggestions that From Rockaway is any more than somewhat autobiographical. Unlike the Catholic-school casualties she describes in her story, Eisenstadt went to public school and lived in a different neighborhood in Rockaway. She's never been to a "death keg" party, never jumped off a 40-foot bridge into the Atlantic's mucky low tide, and has never taken part in any other beach-bum antics. "A lot of the stories in the book are true--or at least I've heard them as true," she says. "But it's based...
...said that the large field of candidates, the most he has seen during his four years on the council, stems from this change in direction. He attributed the organization's "growing popularity" to last year's campus-wide events such as the Elvis Costello concert and the Memorial Hall keg party "which helped portray the council in a very favorable light...