Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wasteful students at the Union, the College's largest dining hall, yesterday had the chance to see the product of their profligacy: a large, clear plastic tub of leftover food...
...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
...believes that every tub should be on itsown bottom," says Business School alumnus WarrenAlpert, who last year pledged $20 million to theMedical School. "But that isn't what Rudenstinebelieves. Rudenstine believes that [resources]ought to be spread around...
...give the presents back. They are presumably offered to show affection and not to buy it. (If they are truly admirers, they would not be trying to buy her affections.) Let her enjoy her gifts, but ask her to share; as a confidante, you deserve at least half the tub...
...attention was diverted when I noticed a more ambitious hand maneuver its paper loop under the largest goldfish in the tub, and lift it swiftly out of the water. I watched the goldfish as it lay tenuously in an iridescent arc, its tail and head hanging over the sides of the fragile circle. In a second it began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer...