Word: springfests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take this view do not usually dispute the litany of institutional complaints voiced by the first group, but seek to de-emphasize them. Sure, it's annoying that the institution with the $11 billion endowment is too cheap to pay for a student center, or even a decent Springfest band. But Harvard rightly remains at the top of U.S. News rankings because what counts is not whether we have two-ply toilet paper, but that we benefit daily, in our classes, extracurriculars and dorm rooms from our extraordinary and multi-talented peers...
Last Friday, Pforzheimer House and the Undergraduate Council showcased Harvard's own in the Springfest Battle of the Bands. The chosen, selected to compete by some mysterious and no doubt complicated process involving a whirl of demos and referrals, were: Putney Swope, usagipop, the Mode Mode and 98%. Despite a few false starts and technical difficulties ranging from a broken guitar string to an impertinent drum machine, the show moved quickly from set to set. Each band played up to a half-hour of selections. With a range that spanned from noise rock to soul classics, it would have been...
Although the question of which band would play at Springfest dominated campus discussion of the event several months ago, this Saturday many students seemed less concerned with the Violent Femmes than they were with the long lines in front of the Sno-Cone machine...
...addition to the standard Springfest offerings, students had the chance to visit the Entrepreneur's Club's and the Radcliffe Choral Society's booths and to see the Juggling Club in action...
This year the council also attempted to turn Springfest into more of a weekend-long event, according to Smith, with Friday night's Battle of the Bands and a Saturday night dance party in Eliot House...