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Seeking the truth, I took a walk one night. I strolled along JFK over the frozen Charles--buried under piles of snow (over three feet in January! Who would have known!)--and stopped midway, looking over the whiteness...
Well, several hundred feet of snow have fallen, several hundred more are on their way, and the daily walk to the yard has become the daily trudge. Now, it's not that slogging through inches of slush while dodging falling icicles isn't my idea of fun. It is. In fact, it's right up there with Tibetan yak racing and funnelling Ole Grand-Dad brand 140 proof whiskey. However, the number of miserable-looking people I've seen slipping and sliding on their way along the streets leads me to ask that question which I'm sure...
...understandable that in the first few days after a major snowfall the sidewalks will be slippery, as men and machines struggle to simply remove the masses of snow. But Harvard's sidewalks, in my two years of experience, are simply never cleared. I almost killed myself on Mt. Auburn street last year when the entire sidewalk was covered in a slippery, uneven coating of ice. The last snowfall had been several weeks previous and apparently no attempt had been made to clear or even salt the sidewalks in the general vicinity of the river houses. Under these conditions...
Members built three snow-workers on the north side of Massachusetts Hall to keep the vigil through the night. Signs reading "Don't mess with the JCB" and "Harvard, don't get cold feet" were planted around the figures...
Yale spokesperson Gary Fryer said the deadline would be "softened" because of the delays in mail delivery caused by the snow...