Word: legendizing
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Last year's lambing has become part of House legend. Residents recalled that lambing victim Mike Bush '99 wore only a jockstrap while receiving a treatment that he apparently enjoyed...
...Legend has it that Harvard is inhabited by a tribe of pasty-faced "former" geeks for whom social life consists of reading Nietzsche into the wee hours and obsessively checking e-mail. That isn't true, of course...or at least, it isn't entirely true...
...recounted legend of the founding of the Union Club begins during the Civil War. In 1863, as Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Class of 1860, and the 54th all-Negro regiment was marching past the Somerset Club, the members pulled down their blinds and hissed in disapproval. Shocked and horrified, Norwood Penrose Hallowell, Class of 1861, second-in-command of that regiment, reportedly led a group of his friends out the front door and formed the Union Club just down the street. Not until 1952 would a Hallowell finally agree to join the Somerset...
...there is any doubt about just how big a legend Rawson is in the boxing community, the 300 person birthday bash that the USA Boxing New England commission threw in his honor last November should help alleviate it. Guests included not only the US Marine Corps boxing team but top amateur fighters from the New England area as well...
Tommy Rawson - a man, a myth, and a legend. So next time you're walking upstairs at the MAC to ride a bike or play some basketball, just keep in mind that his office door is always open. He's never short of stories and you just might find yourself putting on a pair gloves if you stay long enough...