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...gratitude, the reigning Polish monarch, Jan Kazimierz, dedicated his throne and the country to "the Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland." In 1711 the people of Warsaw walked to Czestochowa to thank the Virgin for saving the city from the bubonic plague. Ever since, the pilgrimage has been an annual rite...
...event, which has become somewhat of a rite of spring for both Houses, began three years ago. Each House has been playing a match for a number of years: Lowell between its Junior and Senior Common Rooms, and South against East House in the Quad. Eventually it was decided that it would be more interesting to play inter-House and thus, the rivalry was born...
...Edwards dining hall, Suzanne Ingram checked over a food list for the "existentialist" party she was planning in honor of the conclusion of spring classes. At the next table over, a representative of the residential college was attempting to sell tickets to the Moth Ball, a recently established J.E. rite in which students dance away their academic blues. Three blocks away, Andee Hochman, editor of the Yale Daily News, walked into the corner liquor store to place a final order for tonight's bash. "What's a party without ice?" she said...
...Harvard Lampoon is conducting its Phools' Week, an annual rite of passage for all would be Poonies...
...lively Harvard spring rite, the senior bar, is once again underway, albeit with less fanfare than in previous years...