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...can’t decide whether to call him Dallas, or Perkins, or Mr. Perkins. It probably has to do with the circumstances under which I met him. He was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a round straw hat that looked out of place in Au Bon Pain (or in Cambridge, for that matter). He said things that reminded me how little the policy debate team cared about publicity and how they occupied an entirely different sphere than other student organizations...
...Otherside Café on Newbury Street teems with flannel-wearing, skateboard-riding, scruffy-bearded hipsters. It’s the perfect place to fit in with people who avoid fitting in and to get away from the “conventional” Harvard polo and seersucker...
...graduation, two took off in separate directions—to separate coasts, in fact. They met in New York, sometimes, to shop special sample sales. The sample sale, according to Maybank, is an invite-only sale hosted by luxury brands during the day. Maybank explains that the sales take place at slightly out-of-the-way locations...
...discovered The Otherside when I turned 21 last February, after hearing that it was a destination for other beer connoisseurs (read: snobs). Since then, I’ve frequented the café for another reason: no place makes me happier to be a pencil-headed chemistry major (though those $10 beers are quite good, as well). It is a great place to watch people trying really hard to be something they aren?...
Though races take place throughout the weekend, most of the races that Harvard students compete in—clearly the most important—are during the afternoon on Sunday. “The Sunday afternoon races are really the pinnacle of the regatta,” explains Cartwright...