Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Science concentrators are among the hardest workers here--and aren't shy about sharing how much time they spend in the library or the lab (beware of intro courses that pit you against the Westinghouse Finalist in the grade curve wars). Interdisciplinary choices like History and Literature and Social Studies win praise for their freedom, but with you-can't-hide tutorials, be sure you looove Lamont Library...
...Harvard Square is a magnet for young people in boring suburbs. The Pit People are only the most colorful example--they're the flock of pierced, dyed, leather-clad youths next to the T stop...
William Butler Yeats feared a world in which "the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." Yeats would see it as tragic that pit-dwellers feel their suburban angst more passionately than Harvard students feel touched by art or philosophy. We can yet disprove Yeats' fears, so long as we remember that intellectual rigor and our desire for mastery in dealings with others need not preclude a healthy sense of intensity, longing, curiosity and wonder...
...what one might call "social.." I do not frequent a. Temple Bar, b. the Signet Society or c. the Pit. To tell the sad truth, I rarely emerge from the Crimson-Dunster-Carpenter triangle. But one night last week, the rest of the FM crew having trotted off to Passover dinner, leaving me to fondle the greasy Crimson computer mice alone, I developed an odd urge to break...
...Cambridge boy reported that a dog attacked him. He and three friends were playing basketball at Columbia Park when the suspect, who is also a juvenile, ordered his pit-bull to attack. No one was injured...