Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscience if sophomore members of the organizations lived together. Potential do-gooders housed in Mower and Stoughton would reject all past reluctance to engage in social work full-time when subjected to the looming, guilt-trip-inducing presence of Phillips Brooks House. Likewise, potential converts could be placed in Thayer north or the western end of Canaday, where the mystical magnetism of Memorial Church would soon prove irresistable...
...year an entire dorm, Canaday, will be filled with upperclassmen), while freshmen at the Quad live in houses which are made up of students at every level. The Yard tends to be rowdier than the Quadrangle--everyone who lived recently in the Yard remembers all night shouting matches between Thayer and Holworthy ("Thayer Sucks!"), and has heard of the legendary Straus Rape and Pillage Society which paraded around the Yard last year on Thursday nights complete with drums and occasional bagpipes. The Quad is generally more sedate, with South House's milk and cookies more in character than the Yard...
...sneak up on people hours later with buckets full of water to drench them in revenge. The other one was an easygoing Mr. Open Door, a beer-drinking football player who took his boys out to girls' colleges on weekends. The two rarely spoke. A freshman from Thayer described a blow-by-blow battle of sexual rivalry between his proctors, one of whom was quite a stud and the other a real loser. The dorm laughed far into the night...
Brooks sticks pretty much to the western style, of skating only three lines with three matching sets of defensemen. The defense is led by another All-American, Les Auge, and goaltender Larry Thayer, Thayer has an impressive 18-2-1 personal record and a mere 2.4 goals against average...
Administrators are currently conducting storm window tests on Thayer and Holworthy, outfitted with the Faculty's favored triple-tracks, and Kirkland House, decked in Mass Hall's choice of two-track, to settle the matter once...