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...First-Year Social Committee hosted an alternative to the River Run. Hundreds of pajama-clad freshmen crowded into Annenberg Hall for a “slumber party,” where some students designed matching T-shirts for members of their blocking groups...
Indeed, Samuel B. Novey ’11 suggested that freshmen invent a new tradition like the Quad run. Novey, an Adams House resident, said that he thinks the College administration is overreacting to the few dangerous components of “a generally positive event,” which he found to be the best part of his freshman year...
...think it’s worth the risk,” the individual said. “River Run is a big event, and you can’t just take it away from people...
...Winston S. Churchill shuddered as it cleared the harbor's breakwater. The screws stopped turning, and the 511-ft.-long ship was soon adrift. "What the hell happened?" Commander Graf demanded from the bridge. She grabbed her cowering navigator and pulled him onto the outdoor bridge wing. "Did you run my f___ing ship aground?" she screamed. Not only was this a possible naval disaster, but it was a diplomatic one as well: the navigator was an officer in the British Royal Navy, a billet unique to the Churchill. (See "The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh...
...amid all the chaos and shouting, the sound heard next was more startling. Sailors on the Churchill's stern, suspecting that their ship had run aground - meaning Graf's career would be instantly over - broke gleefully into song: "Ding dong, the witch is dead!" Newly arrived Navy chaplain Maurice Kaprow could not believe what he was seeing and hearing. "Someone came up to me and said, 'We've run aground - she's finished,' " he recalls. "I was flabbergasted. They were jumping for joy and singing on the fantail." As it turned out, one of the ship's propellers had broken...