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...leaves begin to brown, as seersucker makes way for camel-hair, and as cosmopolitan cocktails convert to classic cognacs, we reach many Harvard students’ favorite time of year—punch season...
...many on campus the presence of final clubs near the University is no laughing matter; and each punch season represents yet another year passed where alternative groups suffer without any real social space to call their own. But while many will continue to castigate final clubs and their insensitive discrimination—not to say these arguments are without value—they ignore the University’s obligation to provide ample social space for its students...
Dawson made it clear on Harvard’s first possession that he would not be denied, no matter how many would-be tacklers cheated forward to stop him, carrying seven times for 47 yards and the game’s opening touchdown, a punch-in from one yard...
...book is even more interesting as an archive of American humor. From the '30s until the '80s, Mankoff says, the punch line was in the third person: we were laughing at - not with - the figure in the cartoon: it was an era of screwball comedies, Jack Benny and cops chasing people through hallway doors. In a James Thurber cartoon, a man stops his date in the lobby of his building to say, "You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down." It's the Joey theory of humor...
Colono’s cousin, Samuel Rodriguez, who was present the night of the killing, has testified to delivering a single punch to Pring-Wilson’s head...