Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is the Adams House Raft Race, which beginning this year will be co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Council. Also, each fall the house has an interesting Halloween dance, and every spring we have a traditional waltz...
...this wasn't just any old council meeting over raft races, big fingers, chocolate milk, and the like. In this session the 88 overworked council members were supposed to dole out $24,000 in grants to various student organizations, a process which is the council's most important responsibility. If the grants budget were not implemented at that meeting, more than 60 organizations would have been left hanging in limbo, until the next council meeting three weeks from...
Near the end of Question Time, one member actually asks a question about the council's takeover of the Adams House raft race...
Responding, chairman Offutt says the student government may need to take out liability insurance for the Raft Race because of the injuries that could occur if participants grew too rowdy. What began as the Adams House Ratt Race was changed to the Harvard Adams House Ratt Race when the council took over and was changed to the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race because the exclusion of Radcliffe offended Lakhdhir, who thought Radcliffe should be an integral part of the race. Council members revelled in the pronunciation of HRAH as "hurrah" in referring to the annual rite of spring along...
Zender says, "The weirdest place I've ever hacked are on the slopes of Mt. Olympus in Greece and on a raft in the Mississippi." Adds Lerdow, "On the steps of the Capitol...