Word: pots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howard, the cannon crackers to blow out the lamps of herdie cabs with, the champagne for the chorines [chorus girls]. He was rusticated [suspended] and finally fired from Harvard, so the story goes, for sending to each of a number of professors a chamber pot with the professor's portrait tastefully engraved...
Lampoon president Matt J.T. Murray '99 calls the chamber pot uproar "the Lampoon's first prank" and maintains that Hearst was not expelled but "expunged," meaning that the college destroyed his entire record and any other traces of his having attended Harvard. Current administrators deny knowledge of any such abrogation, and, in fact, no one struck the boy's name from the Faculty records. On September 30, 1885, the Faculty negged Heart's petition to take special exams in order to rejoin his class; on May 4 of the next year, they denied his request to take the eight exams...
While the staff's criticisms of the Undergraduate Council are often well-reasoned critiques worthy of consideration, their attack on the council for the errors and nullification of the past week's election cannot be explained as anything other than a complete and total pot-shot...
...only a few pages longer than, say, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Your In-Laws. The latter, like many of the data-lite books in both series, has plenty of filler. One whole chapter, called Crazy Quilt, reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying) and features statistics on how many Hmong are living in Wisconsin as well as a cultural-IQ quiz that begins, "Abdul, a young man from Egypt, fell in love with Italian-American Gina...
...course, the parallels were not perfect. We are all aware that Nelson Mandela is not Mother Theresa and Jiang Zemin no Pol Pot. But the effect was nonetheless achieved. We who witnessed both Mandela and Jiang pass through our campus have been forced to ask ourselves: Which will we choose, the blessing or the curse...