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...voices of three characters in front of a wet crowd crouched under umbrellas in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. Event organizers estimated that between a few hundred and 1000 people attended the speech, while others watched on screens in Science Center lecture halls and classrooms in order to avoid the rain that poured down on the audience for most of the ceremony...
...like people were really excited—there was a lot of energy, and people were having a great time,” he said. “Everything seemed to go really, really smoothly.” The smooth-running week even overcame some intervention from Mother Nature. Rain on the morning of the Senior Olympics, a battle of houses in events such as tug-of-war and dodgeball, could have put a damper on the festivities, but according to Adams, the Class of ’06 would not succumb to the weather. “I heard...
...television. This effect existed before, but it is a matter of degree; our simulation differs by being more realistic, more complete.In the aforementioned Postal Service song, “Clark Gable,” the actor simulates an imitation kiss in the context of a movie, with ersatz rain as a backdrop—“the script it called for rain / but it was clear that day / so we faked it.” It’s an apt reflection of existence; like LeRoy, we live in an artificial, constructed reality. It is a world where...
...best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational English, let alone the ability to express the rich and intricate arrangements of the great playwright. I’ve shivered in snow, rain, and even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding of electromagnetism. Not quite. I’ve even laughed dry cackles of skepticism after emerging from hour...
...headed into the Ivy League Championships. After the first day of the weekend-long event, Harvard was in second place and within striking distance of the Ivy title. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Mother Nature refused to cooperate. The second day of the event was cancelled due to rain, leaving the Crimson just short of a championship victory. With the underclassmen making such a strong impression, however, the team remained hopeful for titles in future years. “Harvard’s really making a name for itself,” Balmert said following the second-place finish...