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Upon arriving at Harvard, first-years find their introductory semester to be replete with ridiculous, if entertaining, traditions. These time-honored pastimes range in absurdity, from the rather benign obsession with John Harvard’s toe to the more risqué disrobement of Primal Scream. We like to think these quirks add to a sense of camaraderie and community—essential to the experience of every college student. And there was a time when every Harvard student had the opportunity to annually don a bib, clutch a fork and impale his or her very own large, red crustacean...
...drums (deceptively light at times), simple bass lines and an singer frequently sounding at his wits end. If any of this sounds unappealing, you probably won’t like this album: SLD has identified their sound and hardly stray from it. There is a certain majesty, a more primal musical essence in some of their more carefully-written choruses (“You’ve Done Enough,” for example) that transcends the painfully typical downbeat power-chording of so many tracks. Stars Look Down is never lackluster in its sound, and the straightforward production does...
...last January’s Primal Scream, intrepid residents of “Mathergrad” wore Soviet-style attire and blasted the strains of the USSR national anthem. “Everything became more and more Soviet as things went on,” recalls Hunter S. Maats ’04, who painted himself red with a yellow hammer and sickle on his chest for the naked run around the Yard...
...inner, primal sports fan was satisfied...
Aulicino and Kai claim that the reaction at Yale has been profound, as the campus finally got to taste victory at the Harvard-Yale game, something no current Yale student has ever experienced. The Yale fans attending the game also got to experience the primal rush of mob violence, as they stole Harvard’s flag and, in sportsmanlike fashion, proceeded to viciously beat the Harvard students trying to retrieve...