Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golden throats of Harvard, male at least, none of these concerns holds any water. Fall auditions draw more than 60 would-be Kroks, and over a five-day span, the group eventually whittles the pool down to five whom they will actually take, showing up at dawn to induct the new boys. The allure of the slick tuxedoes, carefully placed hair and jazzy chords brings them out in droves. The Kroks rise to the occasion, arriving in suits to each round of auditions, setting up a veritable shrine to themselves in a side room in which the audtioners wait their...
...thinks through an arrangement for the next show. Sophomore Henry Rich, meanwhile, a special concentrator in aesthetics, secludes himself in the corner and reads T.S. Eliot poems into his dictaphone for later listening during his workout at the gym. Others pull up to the bar where, incongruously, they drink water. But it's good to be a Krok, it seems. They joke and laugh, despite their evident differences, because these guys are tightoor as Kirk Bangstad, a senior baritone with a million-dollar smile, puts it half laughingly, half wistfully, "Once you get in the group, that is your social...
...more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have rented the club for the night, give speeches about one another, their wives, their golf and the English as the Kroks, prepare their fail-safe routine. A few grab pitchers of water and drape napkins over their arms to disguise themselves as waiters, a gag which draws big laughs when the Kroks again start singing about those ribs...
Riding a seven-game winning streak, the Harvard men's water polo team (9-7, 8-4 CWPA) rolled over MIT in a 10-6 win last night at Blodgett pool...
...Abraham Lincoln knew, unique events that happened fourscore-plus years ago provide a useful way of marking time. The summoning of such events, as if at a seance, makes an audience sit up, take notice, realize just how much water has passed beneath the bridge. Also: A grander grandeur accrues to the long-past achievement as we reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful...