Word: pittering
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...hear the pitter-pattering all over campus. And soon after, you can actually see them--a group of Harvard undergraduates dancing in and around the various dining halls, interrupting our meals and leaving us with that song in our heads: Ooh...ah...City Step, City Step...ooh...ah. The efforts of these Harvard students (especially in the last few weeks), however, also leave us with the belief that there is much more to be appreciated in life--even life at Harvard--than academics and athletics...
...THIS CASE do not refer to the buff bodies in the Mather House dining hall but to the dozen or so babies who have recently appeared during meals. This year, due to an overwhelming number of house tutors with young children, Matherites have been growing increasingly accustomed to the pitter-patter of little feet. Three-month-olds are bottle-fed in the dining halls; preschoolers solemnly peruse Mother Goose in Mather's cozy concrete library. It is even said (albeit by shaky sources) that they can be found in the weight room. Is this explosion of fecundity a mere coincidence...
...scurrying of my student's little feet the pitter patter pitter...
...having endured a ten minute Kodak slideshow featuring lots of pictures of ice crystallizing, and dogs, and beaches, and sunsets, and black holes, and umbrellas, and kite-flying, and gap-teethed kids gobbling psychedelic spools of never-eat-anything-bigger-than-yer-head cotton candy, my heart was going pitter-pat. It really was. I, err, looked forward to this thing, this piece of space-detritus with more zeros at the end of its comet-tail budget than the rounded-off totality of the Harvard endowment...
...toward buying 326 acres and the Hill home. He hopes to raise $100,000 more to save the rest of the farm. Before the New York builder called to offer Hill's widow his help, she had never heard of him. Nevertheless, she said, "My heart went pitter-patter." Said Trump: "I wanted to help one lady with one farm. The bigger problem is that thousands and thousands of people are going through the same thing...