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Remember your parents’ baseball? Kids could once spend an afternoon at the ballpark on a whim and some pocket change. Now, they almost have to choose between paying for a ticket and paying for college. Money in the game was running wild before, but the Red Sox’s splash has set an appalling new precedent that all fans will come to rue. Well done, baseball; you are managing to take the nation out of the national pastime...
...Canton, Miss., couple roadtripped to this weekend’s Harvard-Yale Game—on a whim. Tom Butchart, who orders college football jerseys from time to time, purchased a Harvard one recently. When his wife, Diane, saw her husband’s shirt, she made fun of him “trying to be intelligent.” So Diane aligned herself with Yale and together they decided to venture North for the game. Their trip has brought them local fame and for Diane, a ring. When Diane saw a ring she liked at a Charles Street antique...
Rozier and Smith both submitted their photos on something of a whim after seeing an announcement encouraging Leverett’s hidden photographers to send images in for the show. Pan had heard of it through his tutor, Laura M. Bacon ’02, who’d done a little pitch for it at their first entryway meeting...
...yeah, the Widener thing was fun, it was much harder to put together because it’s much more complicated, you can’t just go and do it on a whim...
...extremely specific focus, and might be bearable only for a similarly specific group: though you might fall in love with the confluence of cultural history and representations of space in Mongolian chant in your Lit and Arts C Core, don’t just take it on a whim because it gives you no class Thursdays. Many Core classes are not offered every year, so look through each Core area far in advance for classes that seem interesting (or depending on your goals, easy).In sum, the Core is a killer only when it sneaks up on you. By planning...