Word: mascotism
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...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. The Grinch Who Stole The Kegs took the field as part of the Harvard band’s halftime show, wielding a whooping stick that he unleashed on an effigy of Yale’s mascot, Handsome Dan. The comedic show of school spirit was enough to spare him the wrath of the student section—well, that and the fact that Lewis’ cameo went largely undetected by the punch-drunk masses who had found other ways to get their buzz...
Deibel and Hughes also replaced the restaurant’s old crocodile mascot with a zebra—“a horse with design gone wild,” according to Deibel...
PHILADELPHIA—ESPN’s College GameDay co-host Lee Corso was set to don the costume of the mascot of the team he predicted was going to win Saturday’s Harvard-Penn tilt, just like he does every week right before the end of the show...
When Harvard football alum and current WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski ’00 picked up the Ben Franklin mascot and lifted him over his head. Unfortunately for those among us who despise doughy-faced mascots, “Chris Harvard” didn’t follow through on the body slam threat...
...quote on the mantel just didn’t seem to fit such a context. I was first struck with the tension John Harvard himself presented. Why was he on top of this quote? John Harvard as a beneficiary, as a mascot of sorts, sure, but who thinks of him as a role model? Had he ever chosen a good name over great riches, or love over wealth? His one claim to fame—mysterious, nondescript historical figure that he is—seems to be that he accumulated wealth over his lifetime and decided to donate a large...