Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's European trip ends with a show of harmony and a shower of words...
Eric H. Strassmann '85, a Whitman Hall Biochemistry concentrator, reportedly slipped and fell while taking a shower on Thursday May 24, rendering himself unconscious, While unconscious, he apparently drowned in a few inches of water...
...ALMOST A YEAR I've been sharing one shower in South House with 10 other undergraduates. Beyond the ceiling pipes dripping with condensation and the muddy floors, the single most unappealing aspect of the arrangement was the shower curtain. The luminous green was almost completely overwhelmed by black and dark green growths of such variety that it would have made a senior thesis just to classify them all. For a while I felt I was neglecting my academic duty by not calling the Biology Department to let them know what a good cultivation medium rubber sheets made...
Pleas to my superintendent's sense of hygiene failed. Then two days ago, I got into the shower. Instead of being greeted by my old friend drawn together in a "V" at the pleats by the sticky gook, I found a brand-new curtain spread majestically across the opening. I was startled, but the answer came to me. The alumni are in town...
...sham, and I don't want to forget it. For most of my four years, the grass has been brown and my shower curtain has been covered with scum. I have memories of this place, some good and many bad; I want to keep them all. When I'm riding a special bus to a reunion Boston Pops concert, I want to remember the days I trudged through snow or rain because the shuttle service is insufficient. When I'm eating at the Union again, I hope I'll think about the 11 days Harvard kept me from my diploma...