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WHEN I WAS a first-year living in the Yard, my only complaint about Commencement was the Facilities Maintenance crew, which woke me at ungodly hours each morning by banging stakes into the ground and snapping open thousands of chairs. The same uncomfortable ones you're sitting in now, trying desperately to look interested in the prime minister of Norway...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hope You Enjoy the Grass. I Paid for It. | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...didn't have much choice about it this year. I woke up one morning to finish my junior essay and, as I leaned over to turn on my computer, I noticed a truck in the middle of the Quad. When I put on my glasses, I saw that it wasn't a truck. It was a tank. Seriously...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hope You Enjoy the Grass. I Paid for It. | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...woke me up," said M. Samuel Liu '93, who heard the crew working outside his Adams House room. "At first I thought it was the Lampoon, then I looked out and saw this funny-looking machine...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, | Title: Artists of the Night | 5/6/1992 | See Source »

Against Cornell yesterday, the Harvard bats woke up just in time, as the Crimson won by scores...

Author: By A. PREBLE Jaques, CONTRIBUTING RPORTER | Title: Baseball Defeats Cornell, Princeton | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

They outlawed slavery in 1833, 30 years before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. They took on Hitler in 1939, two years before Pearl Harbor woke this country...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Will Clinton Be America's Neil Kinnock? | 4/14/1992 | See Source »

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