Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FEBRUARY 17, 1999 The Crimson reported the University would spend $4 million on a new tower to be placed atop Memorial Hall. Some student leaders--engaged in the perennial search for scarce office space--criticized the University's priorities. Undergraduate Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00 said it was "absurd that Harvard draws on donors...to fund a project which has no immediate benefit for students...
...Henry IV tells of a modern-day nobleman (David Skeist '02) who has, for the last 20 years, believed himself to be Emperor Henry IV of Germany. As the play opens, his one-time paramour Matilda (Karin Alexander '02) comes to visit "Henry" in his grotesquely medieval living-space. She brings her friend Baron Belcredi (Tom Price '02), her daughter Frida (Marianne Cook '02) and a psychiatrist (Matthew Carlson) who intends to study "Henry" and attempt to cure him. Matilda and Belcredi explain the scenario to the doctor and to us before entering Henry's masquerade along with the madman...
Yale sophomore Joshua F. Gruenspecht agrees that framing Harvard acceptances is the kind of thing people do in New Haven--he even came close to doing it himself, but eventually decided not to waste the money or the wall space. "The letter I got [from Harvard] said, `Congratulations, you got into Harvard. La da da da da. Here is a certificate you can put in a scrapbook or frame.' I thought, `Boy that's arrogant...
...Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73, who says this is the first year she has been at Harvard that they have not sent out the certificate, claims the "emblematic congratulatory sign" was not eliminated this year for any particular reason. "We change things all of the time. It competes for space in that envelope, and it is a heavy piece of paper." So instead of reordering the certificates, like they usually do every three years, the admissions office decided to save their money. Lewis also admits that the office has received some flack for the items in the past...
...Yale sophomore Joshua F. Gruenspecht agrees that framing Harvard acceptances is the kind of thing people do in New Haven---he even came close to doing it himself, but eventually decided not to waste the money or the wall space. "The letter I got [from Harvard] said, 'Congratulations, you got into Harvard. La da da da da. Here is a certificate you can put in a scrapbook or frame.' I thought, 'Boy that's arrogant...