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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freshman Urban Program T-shirt captured the wit and energy that characterized my first week at Harvard. In addition, it gave me membership in a group of service-minded individuals and a uniform with which to recognize them. I laundered the shirt following the instructions my mother had given me (cold water for white shirts and underwear), folded it and placed it in an empty drawer in my Mower room...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...flocks of other first-years led us to the shop on JFK Street where the owner handed each of us a white shirt with an oversized "Class of '96" in crimson lettering. With my class year emblazoned on the front, this T-shirt contributed even more to my feeling of belonging at Harvard. That night, several hundred of my classmates and I added the '96 T-shirt to our wooden dressers...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...dorm T-shirt was ready in time for the second semester season of intramural volleyball. A simple "Mower Tower of Power" adorned the front of the heather gray shirt. On the back, we drew a cartoon satirizing the cluelessness of people who did not know where Mower was. The inspirational shirt propelled our anonymous dorm to a first-place finish in intramural competition...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...most surprising and distressing shirt of my first year came with a shuttle bus schedule and facebook attached. This gray T-shirt sported a Currier House shield. I wore this one as a badge of my powerlessness in the housing lottery. No matter how we rationalized it, the T-shirt reminded us that the Tower of Power would be moving to the Quad...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

During my sophomore year, the T-shirt collection grew even larger...

Author: By Peter S. Cahn, | Title: Four Years of College In a T-Shirt Drawer | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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