Word: snow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This time of year, Harvard Yard is covered in stately snow drifts, and the afternoon light makes the steeple on Mem Church gleam against blue winter skies. Blankets of lights hang above Mass. Ave. like starry spider webs. Harvard students, too smart to study, take their dining hall trays for rides down the steps of Widener...
...women of Harvard College are getting more from Harvard than snatching reverent glances at soft beds of snow and long, thick steeples that penetrate the air. Come wintertime, they’re getting their kicks by giving out free samples—and hell, Harvard men are getting to eat for free. Egg nog, mulled cider, hot cocoa—anything you want, they’ll offer you a taste. In fact, these women are veritable caterers! Bag lunches, pastry assortments—I’ve even learned to make a special nacho cheese dip. As the winter...
...December sky darkens as a stream of commuters in the Square tramples snow into slush and crowds the slippery steps of an escalator descending into the T station. They reassemble on the outbound platform, glancing at the tracks as an Alewife-bound train rumbles above. For a moment, the station falls silent. Then at once there is music, echoing off the crimson tiles and turning heads toward the rear of the platform...
...arrives bearing takeout from Spice, is an extroverted personality who has decided to protect himself from the snow in layers of cashmere sweaters rather than a jacket. He encourages an auditioner stricken with a tickly throat: “Can you carry a tune? You’ll be fine...
Before running off early, Texan belle Jennifer N. Hawkins tells more face-in-the-snow tales, and Shaka J. Bahadu charms the crowd with accounts of first-year Primal Scream embarrassment. “I was real skinny, and self-conscious. And black, which meant that when my friends pushed me to the front, everyone knew who I was.” The relationship between his freshman performance and his current status as first class marshal remains up for interpretation...