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...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...
...raises a question: Just how real are they? McCourt, Harrison and all the wannabes may be telling the truth about their past, but they are also, as Harrison puts it, fictionalizing what really happened. Did McCourt's grandmother really say to him, when he was a small boy, "If 'tis a thing I ever find out you were telling jokes to Jesuits, I'll tear the bloody kidneys outa you"? Did Harrison's grandmother really tell her, once she began crossing her eyes as a child, "They'll get stuck like that if you don't stop"? For those...
...Tis the season for house formal date-hunting, and landing a Harvard guy with a sense of rhythm is like winning your first Master's at age 21, (we can't all have the eye of the Tiger...
Perhaps I am alone, but around this time of year, I start dreaming of what I would like in a new computer. Tis the season for financial aid forms, and in the flurry, many students may decide to take out a computer loan. Then the question is: what computer do I get? For PC users, Intel hopes you will buy into their latest improvement of the Pentium processor...
...TIS THE SEASON TO BE MOURNFUL...