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Most of the time the crowd didn't need any such cheerleading. Without any outside prodding, the two sides of the stadium periodically broke into chants. I don't mean just the band and some of the rowdier students, but at least 10,000 warm bodies on each side of the field, in unison and without direction...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Harvard 10, Georgia 7 | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

...gashouse gang grew rowdier as one reporter after another shoved in to yell questions over the din. This was, after all, no ordinary small-town election. Oh, I don't really care, said Billy 50 different ways. His most credible explanation: "I lost because I drink beer on Sundays and because I'm a Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Drew Fixell '78, who transferred from South House to Quincy, said yesterday, "My roommates and I moved mainly because we wanted a suite, which would have been hard to get at the Cliffe. We also wanted the proximity to the Square and prefer the rowdier social life in the River houses. The Cliffe secmed a bit too quiet...

Author: By Julie Wilson, | Title: 55 Transfer to River Houses; 35 Students Go to Quadrangle | 3/10/1976 | See Source »

...traditionally been reserved for freshmen (although last year there were some sophomores living there and this year an entire dorm, Canaday, will be filled with upperclassmen), while freshmen at the Quad live in houses which are made up of students at every level. The Yard tends to be rowdier than the Quadrangle--everyone who lived recently in the Yard remembers all night shouting matches between Thayer and Holworthy ("Thayer Sucks!"), and has heard of the legendary Straus Rape and Pillage Society which paraded around the Yard last year on Thursday nights complete with drums and occasional bagpipes. The Quad...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Cliff Dwellers and Yard Pests | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...Romeo and Juliet" would be much more fun played at midnight. It was a pitch to stonies and straights alike, and was so successful that it was followed the next year with a real gimmick--President Bok narrating an impeccably played "Peter and the Wolf"--which drew an even rowdier and more enthusiastic crowd. The next two midnight programs tried to recapture that success by continuing to take the audience back to its childhood with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "The Young Person's Guide." But last year the program was more frivolous than fun, and this year it just...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Murky Midnights | 12/18/1974 | See Source »

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