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...unintended casualty of the suddenly strict enforcement of the alcohol codes will be the impact on interhouse mixing. Like it or not, students will choose a wet party over a dry one. By confining alcohol to in-House gatherings and parties in student rooms, the College effectively cordons off students from those in other House-at least on Friday and Saturday nights. Already the Student Assembly has cited grave problems organizing College-wide dances because of the alcohol ban. At an institution where separatism has emerged as a key problem in recent years, that impact is ironic indeed. Harvard...
Behind the bandstand, over by a string of boxcars parked on a siding, Bill Cameron, 17, of Orange, Vt., and his father Enoch, 71, are standing back-to-back in the wet grass, practicing their competition tunes. The two Koehler girls from Westfield, Mass., ten-year-old Gretchen and seven-year-old Rebecca, skitter about giggling until their mother Shirley tells them to get down to business and start practicing. They are astonishingly good. Shirley, who is a nurse, says that neither she nor her husband Jim, a welding engineer, is at all musical. The girls started playing the violin...
...Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge or the great diplomat ... He would have made a great Roman." On John P. Marquand: "Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort of stuff demands an immense vitality; and a man outgrows his vitality without unfortunately outgrowing his furious concern with it." On Ross Macdonald: "Here is a man who wants the public for the mys tery story...
Brunvand has catalogued dozens of local happenings that somehow seemed to happen in different localities all over the country, yarns that are probably untrue but widely retold. There is, for instance, the story of the old woman who, whenever her dog or cat got wet, would dry it off in the oven. Then her children bought her a microwave, with gruesome consequences. Perhaps the most popular American folk yarn, the "vanishing hitchhiker," has been around for decades (centuries, if you count the version in Acts 8: 26-39). It has been updated for the automobile age. A driver picks...
...hang around the wet-haired female denizens of Blodgett Pool--the Harvard women's swim team--long enough, you might hear them saying unusual things like, "Today we swam to New York City!" or, "Today we swam all the way to Reno, Nevada!" Don't be too perturbed; the women are just discussing their novel fund-raising approach for the upcoming winter trip to California. The 30-member squad has decided to collectively swim 3000 miles over the next four weeks--approximately the distance between Boston and Los Angeles. According to co-captain MAUREEN GILDEA, this breaks down to about...