Word: wet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have to admit, last Friday’s inauguration was fairly miserable. If you are not a member of the Faust family, a Faust family friend, or Mephistopheles himself, there was probably little for you to enjoy on such a wet and nasty...
...Accompanied by the tunes of bagpipes, the gray weather that dominated the afternoon seemed more fitting for the instrument’s wet home than the crisp Cambridge October...
Sitting in Tercentenary Theater on that cold and wet Friday afternoon, watching the historic proceedings of President Drew G. Faust’s installation, I was embarrassed to be a Harvard student. I was ashamed because Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the purported representative of the Harvard College student body, painted a picture of Harvard College students as immature, fussy children. In his grandiose address on student citizenship, Petersen compared President Faust’s march for civil rights to his own crusade for student rights. He advised...
...marched towards Memorial Church Friday. But intermittent rain couldn’t dampen spirits Friday as the University officially installed Drew G. Faust as its 28th president. Official Harvard Alumni Association ponchos were donned, umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms in Tercentenary Theatre, and the ceremony was marred only by a wet microphone that shorted out during remarks by University Marshall Jackie A. O’Neill...
...hammer had failed, in silencing this seemingly indomitable voice. But then there was the sound of the cello again, that warm and human sound, as the soloist poured forth on the stage, and it was as if Slava were there once more because every cheek in the house was wet, and at this moment, a moment he would have loved, it was enough to know that in his playing, and forever in his instrument, there was so much music and beauty...