Word: ouring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THAT'S right. I'm going to talk about hair loss, a subject that strikes fear into the hearts of Harvard men of all academic concentrations. Hair loss is a warning sign of our own mortality, and perhaps more importantly, of the passing of our social prime. One day, we...
My rooming group thus faced the inevitable decision: Would we continue to ignore The Mound or would we clean it up? Our decision was much like the federal government's choice in recent years: Ignore the problem, or act?
We began to check our geneologies. Are our fathers bald? Are our uncles bald? Are our maternal third cousins bald? What about the dog? In the height of hysteria, we ignored the basics of genetic research. After intense soul- searching, each of us concluded: "I won't be bald. Yeah...
Finally, crisis. The shower water could not break through The Mound, and the shower area began to flood. Our soap boxes and shampoo containers floated in the muck; taking a shower was like wading through the Nile.
Finally, one roommate and I got down on our hands and knees and did the dirty work. We removed The Mound. We removed additional hair that had sunk into the shower drain. We removed so much hair it was as if one of those furry little dogs had simply died...