Word: summers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer following my sophomore year, I worked part-time at the C'est Bon on Mass. Ave. The store's customers included throngs of tourists, a magician who turned $1 bills into twenties and proceeded to pay me with them, a 70-ish year-old man in a green beret and combat boots who liked to bring me stuffed animals and, most significantly, some of the thousand or so students attending Harvard Summer School. High-schoolers freed of parental restrictions for the summer, carrying light academic loads relative to the average undergraduate, they were an image of the carefree college...
They were certainly not alone in their rudeness. However, it had an edge to it which the demeanor of most other customers lacked. Something about being among those selected to attend the summer school had apparently infused some of them with an inflated sense of their own intelligence. And I, standing behind the counter in my employee T-shirt, was, in their interpretation, clearly no match for them. I described this problem to a friend who suggested, half-seriously, that I ward them off by pinning my Harvard ID to my shirt...
...camp's summer maintenance worker, and was the only young man around for miles, Hellmiss-Peralta said...
Despite some frustration, Pryor encouraged the crowd, particularly the young people, to go to the region and volunteer their help this summer...
While most of this weekend's Crimson competitors will be making their last appearances for the year, the team has planned a two-week summer trip to England and Ireland...