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There's always the real purpose of the stacks--the secluded B southwest section has an excellent reputation for that infamous undergraduate rite of passage...
...differently. The Roman Catholic Church consigned Valentine to an eternity of sappiness when it canonized him 200 years after his demise, according to a recent article in The New York Times. (It was a slow news day, okay?) The church intended Valentine's Day to supplant a popular fertility rite of the pagan god Lupercus, who was associated with "joy, abundance and sexual freedom." Joy, abundance and sexual freedom sound a lot more entertaining to me than the current, more greeting-card-driven ritual, but then I'm not Roman Catholic and may be missing out on religious significance...
Fraud, it seems, was his fav'rite sport...
...these feathered fowl are not running loose on their own. They are being exposed to student life at Harvard by newly inducted members of the Phoenix final club, in a rite of initiation...
...regards the recommendation of the report, I understand them to be as follows," Johnson wrote. "That the Executive Director of Brooks House, the Director of the Stride Rite Community Service Program, and the College Director of the Office of Public Service Programs be laid...