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Prichard, a tall, slender Canadian with a slight but discernable accent, gestures broadly to explain that “Thirsty Thursday” is a direct response to what he finds unpleasant about Harvard’s social life. “Fuck going out to Final Clubs or pretentious bars where there are people we don’t like,” he exclaims. “Why not just get our friends here with...
...those who were regulars, who met new friends and drew closer to acquaintances at the parties, the end of the events are much more than a slight inconvenience. Prichard recounts the last party of the 2001-2002 school year. A party regular—and a graduating senior—climbed up on the couch and raised his glass. He proceeded to tell the room full of people with whom he had spent most every Thursday night for nine months how appreciative he was of their company. His emotions overwhelmed him and soon he was crying...
Nearly every first-year prays to end up in Adams House, and the advantage of its great location far outweighs the slight inconvenience of having a crowded dining hall during peak times. Residents of Adams should stop being so whiny and learn to live with the masses...
...climes bring o'er, / To serve worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
Although McLoon’s performance was a slight decline from last weekend’s record-setting race at Stowe, Vt. when she took first in a field of over fifty competitors, she nevertheless delivered solid finishes in both the 5K free technique and the longer 15K classic...