Word: tis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tis spring. Tis the season for Harvard students to emerge from a foreboding stack of papers and re-enter the world of sunshine and warmth. Tis the season for a healthy host of Harvard "fests." Coming up this weekend is the much-heralded Thropstock at Winthrop House (and you're all invited--even if you don't live there!) Thropstock promises to be a veritable confluence of fabulous music, with several student bands on the day's bill. In addition to the bands, there will be several arts and crafts areas--and the folks over at Winthrop House...
...Tis the season to be rejected. All over America and the world, 17-and 18-year-olds have received thin envelopes informing them they weren't quite good enough for Harvard. Here, meanwhile, 19-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that unpaid internship in Congress or that menial job at Newsweek. Twenty-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that thesis grant or prestigious fellowship. And 21-year-olds by the dozen have been told they weren't quite good enough for Yale Law or johns Hopkins...
...Tis neither bird, nor plane nor Superman, folks. It's a 3Com PalmPilot...
...Tis the season to be annoyed. In the brief weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break, most of us are so swamped with schoolwork and other obligations that we scarcely have time for ourselves. And as the semester grinds to a close, we often find ourselves in a constant state of being annoyed with people. There is temporary annoyance, when lack of sleep or too much pressure leads us to see everyone around us as getting in our way. Then there is annoyance as an attitude toward life, when we see everyone around us as getting...
...Tis the season to be jolly (tra la la ...)." Or at least so declare the Christmas carols that are ringing through the Kirkland House Dining Hall. And so one would think from the big, decorated tree sitting proudly in the entrance foyer of Adams House. And in the dining hall of Leverett. In fact, from the looks of things, one could easily get the impression that everyone at Harvard celebrates Christmas. Which, at least insofar as I can tell and as the admissions committee claims, is not the case. So why do Christmas trees decorate the houses to the complete...