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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left Weld Boat House heading upstream an hour before the 4 p.m. start. In this way we could cheer on our K-House sister crew rowing in the Mixed-club eights and see if they were still afloat after the first mile marker...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Back of the Head | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...earned run average in the 1978 baseball season--the 6-0 shutout of Cornell to seal the 1978 Eastern League title for the Crimson: these glories fade to irrelevance in professional sports. The halo of his charmed athletic existence at Harvard, he hopes, will soon give way to a new dome covering his head. A big dome. In Houston...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Larry Brown: From Soldiers Field to the Astrodome? | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...many Harvard upperclassmen would find that situation palatable. Years of conditioning with Heinekens or strawberry dacquiris have taught them that a happy glow at dinner might be the best way to start off a weekend. Gov. Edward J. King's election seemed to snarl that pattern, since King railroaded through the legislature the 20-year-old drinking age. However, most Harvard students found last spring that King's legal grip did not extend far into Harvard Houses. The ban on House happy hours decided by the House masters in April lasted for about a week--students and masters viewed each...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

MAINTAINING social events in the Houses was the main reason for happy hours, and the main reason why students are scrambling to find some way around the rules. It's not that difficult, because private parties are untouched by the rules, and in at least one House, the happy hours are being served there. And post-football game celebrations, invariably sanctioned by masters, draw crowds to huge House celebrations: Dunster's "zorbels" (otherwise known as a punch powerful enough to flatten Ali), a hot cider and rum at Winthrop and a BYOB bask at Mather. Other Houses are holding...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

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