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Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Ling took a hit and passed it up to me. I declined, knowing I didn't need it tonight. It had been a long circuitous road to this perch atop the lofty pate, on the even of the biggest rally since the good old days. One or two of the old timers were still in our midst, keeping the Hibachi going, on into the third night. Some were here just because they were glad to get out of the dorm, or to miss Expos at 9 a.m. But the real heavies, who had remained since the '60s, who'd taken...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Tenting Tonight | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...been handed, you bastard. I hope it mends in time for your next big-shot fete. If it doesn't, maybe you can make up a good story about how you got your limp, one that Zbiggy or Gore or Truman or Jackie will swallow like hot pate...

Author: By Richard L. Nichols, | Title: Back to the Grind | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

...pate...

Author: By Richard L. Nichols, | Title: Back to the Grind | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

...over the garlic soup and mussel bar. NATIONALIZATION IS THE WAY TO A MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE was the message next to a cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: From Fete to Fiasco | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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