Word: mets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Glee Club: grumbling emerges from Holden Chapel. Jameson Marvin, the new choral director, walked into a hostile situation and met limited success last year. The all-male chorus sings a varied but small repertoire. Its highlight traditionally is a tenor's rendition of "Loch Lomond...
After Rosovsky met with dissatisfied junior faculty members of the department last semester, the Faculty Council considered a proposal to govern the department through an executive committee of professors. Rosovsky is expected to announce the appointment of such a committee this fall...
...Stoughton Hall. It was not entirely unheralded: I had had premonitions of disaster when I climbed up the four very long flights to my cavernous one-room double and stared at my roommate with the calculator looped around her belt. I had worried about the place when I met the guy downstairs who bleached his hair ash blond and posted death poetry, embellished by skull and crossbones, on his door. I got nervous when I heard the strains of opera punctuated by very loud and horrifyingly off-key singing in the room next door. But I knew...
...have never met anyone at Harvard able to match my tales of the people who lived in Stoughton my freshman year. Person for person, they were psychos. Zozo and Yarco, Stoughton's hulky Cuban sentinels, pouncing upon each girl as she entered the dorm: "What did you do tonight?" (Avuncular whine) "Who were you with?" (Leer) "Were his roommates there?" (Snicker) "A lady wouldn't do that." (Dismissed); Rob, the awestruck and disoriented Midwestern roommate of the Death Poet, wandering about sadly, latching onto anyone who would listen, occasionally making conversation with the two calculator-addled physics jocks who haunted...
...gave up on my roommate immediately (not the nicest move, but I could see the handwriting on the wall), but I did not give up on Harvard as fast. Then I met my dormmates...