Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After dropping into a tie for seventh place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League last Weekend, Harvard's varsity nine turns its attention to two important Greater Boston League games this week. The Crimson meets Tufts at 3 p.m. today on Soldiers Field and travels to Brandeis tomorrow to challenge the Judges...
...social institutions at Harvard are themselves unique. Here, there are no fraternities to coordinate individual activities. The houses plan separate small weekends, but none of these approaches the large financial scale of the freshman effort. And the large weekend does have its advantages. First, hundreds of people from a basically homogeneous group all bent on having fun are, of themselves, bound to create an experience which no committee can plan fully. It is a unity not unlike that generated by a football game or a freshman riot. Second, Jubilee is a great release from the pressures of the freshman year...
...become a legend in Jubilee history. In entertainment, the committee again found the mark. Between the time the committee contracted the Temptations and the time of the weekend, the Temps had risen to unexpected levels of success and Jubilarians subsequently enjoyed a concert by one of the nation's "hottest" entertainment commodities. But this was nothing compared to what was yet to come...
...weekend is more than just the largest single social event which is coordinated among undergraduates, and its spirit encompases more than just a compendium of specially scheduled events. It is the impromptu cocktail parties scheduled in the yard during hours of extended parietals. It is actually being at the inevitable, notorious events which accompany the weekend. It's over 1000 people forgetting papers, exam pressures, and jobs. It's a whole class celebrating a spring ritual and soaking up the spontaneous merriment of each moment. The augment this, there are always the normal attractions of Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard...
...plots to kill Jubilee Weekend are multifarious. More than once in the short history of this gala affair, a group of disgusted roommates, turned down by all four girls that they knew at Endicott, have sat around late scheming for its demise. Jocks tried to kill it when the Byrds appeared; heads have always stayed away en masse. But no one has really managed to pin down what makes Jubilee so terrible every year. Last year, a series of fortuitous coincidences almost brought the noble tradition down, but alas, they're going to give it one more try this year...