Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capper is another of O'Callahan's offerings: "Harvard's nice, but B.U.'s great." On this night, and in this sport, there is no one to offer a dissenting opinion...
Being the first freshmen to compete in a major contact sport at the varsity level has put surprisingly little pressure on the three. Purdy feels the reason is "that we've all graduated from one tough league to another. After bantams and high school, by the time you reach college you've learned to live with any pressure...
...student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show...
...they find themselves funny, they should not be disappointed with the show. Mark O'Donnell, taking his cue from the stuffed crocodiles over the Pudding's mantel, manages to change a repugnant beast and a vicious sport into a joke. Tots in Tinseltown mocks elitism, the quest for social position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh...
...Hasty Pudding's oh-so-gentlemanly sport has gone on with only minor interruptions (World Wars I and II) almost as long as the ruling elite have sent their sons to Harvard. Though similar clubs have gone under or underground this one has come back from the squelchings of '69 and years like it with resiliency. The secret of the Pudding's longer shelf life seems to be the consummate social artistry of its Theatricals. These continuing efforts at a form of culture which, after all, involves an audience, an outside world, make the club more palatable to theatre-chair...