Word: pubbing
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...sweet party in your backyard. But when it comes to Harvard Yard, the story is a bit different.This past school year, Harvard embarked on a number of projects geared towards expanding social space, including undertakings as diverse as the $4.5 million Queen’s Head pub and the Harvard College Women’s Center. But designing a social space that caters to the diverse interests of the College’s roughly 6,500 undergrads has proved to be a challenge. As a result, two approaches have emerged: While some locales appeal to specific groups on campus, others...
Finally, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub has solved an age-old problem: where’s a senior to get a drink in this place? Last Friday, hundreds of students flooded the Queen’s Head Pub to partake in the first ever “Upper Hall.” According to Loker Commons Project Manager, Zachary A Corker ’04, the term “Hall” alludes to social gatherings at the Oxbridge Universities that we Harvard students unceremoniously call a dinner or drink. Now, Harvard has its own distinct...
...important in terms of community building. Instead of placing so much emphasis on Yardfest and the Harvard Carnival, the CEB would be better advised to turn its attention and focus to funding to the litany of opportunities for community-building that exist on a weekly basis: in the new pub, the houses, and wherever a group of friends and classmates can gather for diversion. Instead of huddling with blockmates in front of a stage, for example, the CEB might sponsor a smaller event in the pub catered to fans of a niche musical genre. In a smaller setting, those fans...
...there, rather than dealing with trivial matters like financial aid. What Harvard Oughts to Do: Other Idea #1: Put another fucking music store there. Other Other Idea: Put a few beds in it for Quadlings to nap during the day. Other Other Other Idea: Queen’s Head Pub II, but with free drinks between classes. Otherrrrrr Idea: Turn it into a gigantic single for the senior who has the most sex—or actually has sex at all. Idea: Give it to FM. Idea, Other: Make it into a laser-tag-video-game-ice-hockey play place...
...down into a movie with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize. Swift finally won the Booker in 1996 for Last Orders, an equally powerful tale of four London friends heading for the seaside to spread the ashes of a pub mate. Both Swift's first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner(1980), in which a dying man reflects on his life, and his most recent one until now, The Light of Day(2003), about a disgraced former policeman trying to unravel a crime of passion, embody another of Swift's techniques...