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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Section 18 Gone...
...moved onto rennovated Watson Rink, I couldn't help but mourn the loss of Section 18. Watson looks absolutely sensational today; every one of the 2800 seats is a good one: reconstruction has eliminated the old blind spots. Committee member Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Time Magazine, kept muttering about how impressive it all was as construction workers tried to look busy. There was talk of being able to use the rink for events (like graduation) forced indoors by inclement weather, and I wondered why it couldn't be made into a mini-Boston Garden, with portable ice and a basketball...
Even Watson's new press facility is sparkling, although it will miss the special aroma of Bill Scheft's cigars and the lived-in quality of his tobacco juice excretions. But somehow Section 18 just won't be the same: it has lost the special character and flavor. It looks too sterile, and I can't imagine some future John Arnold or Fritz McLoughlin unwrapping an ugly, ten-pound fish and hurling it onto the back of some unsuspecting Dartmouth goaltender...
Committee member Peter Brooke asked Reardon about Harvard's basketball facilities as he surveyed Watson Rink (complete with an elevator and special seating section for handicapped people, another legislative initiative of the '70s). After all, Brooke said, Exeter has a beautiful, four-court arena which is bigger than...
...tops in drama won't see his name bandied about in local newspaper headlines. The Boston Globe goes so far as to publish a list of Harvard's (and other area colleges') top high school "recruits" in football, basketball and hockey. But turn to the arts section of that same paper, and you won't find a list of orchestra recruits, acting recruits or singing recruits...