Person of the Week
Name: Caitlin Bowers ‘11
Concentration: English
Announcements
House Events
11/16: Sophomore Plan of Study Celebration
9PM JCR
11/18: Sherry Hour
5PM SCR
11/18: Community Night
5PM DHall
11/21: Pre-Career Panel: Finding Jobs and Internships in
15 Fields
6:30PM Old Library
Harvard Events
Now through 11/28: Harry Potter Scavenger Hunt
9am-5pm, Harvard Museum of Natural History
11/17: Death and the King’s Horseman
7:30PM Loeb Experimental Theater
11/18: Boston Philharmonic: Bruckner Symphony no. 8
7PM Sanders Theater
11/18-20: Disney Revue
8PM Adams Pool Theater
11/18-20 The Balcony
8PM Loeb Mainstage
11/19 Bach Society Orchestra Concert
8PM Paine Hall
11/19-20 No Turning Back
8PM Harvard Dance Center
11/20: Harvard Yale Game (127th One!)
12:00 PM @ Harvard Stadium
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You used to play varsity softball for Harvard.
How long have you been playing softball and
what position(s) did you play?
15 years, I started playing when I was 4 to be like
my older sister. I played 3rd base when I was little.
I think because I was the only one not scared to be
that close to the batter. On my high school team, I
played catcher and hated it. For my travel team, I
played 3rd and 2nd base. In college, I also played
2nd base.
Vol. 11 Issue 9. Week of November 15.
Cameron Anaya, Jeremy Ying, Louis
Amira, Rebecca Levitan, Trieu Ton
What Do You See?
What are your favorite sports teams? (Baseball,
football, etc.)
I'm from the Houston area so Astros, Rockets, Texans...but I also like teams that actually win games
so I'm a Longhorns fan and I've started to like the
Red Sox too.
Are you excited for the Harvard-Yale game?
Of course! This is the one time of year that the stadium even comes close to filling up and Harvard
students pretend like they enjoy football.
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? What traditions does your family have?
I am going home to spend Thanksgiving with my
mom's family. Everyone brings a dish and we just
hang out all day and watch football. The following
day, "Black Friday", all of the women in my family
drive to Houston to go shopping. We spend all day
at the Galleria and get everyone's gifts that day,
then wrap them all up and wait until Christmas.
What are your post-college plans?
I wish I had a plan! I am currently trying to get a
job back home in Texas, possibly in the oil field.
We'll see what happens. I'm not too stressed
about it yet.
Teaser
Question:
Why do Yale graduates hang
their diplomas from the rear
view mirror?
If you won $20 million in the lottery, what would
Answer:
you do with the money?
Charity! Isn't that the PC answer? I would probably To justify their handicapped
pay off my loans first, buy my family and myself
parking.
some nice things, donate some, take a ridiculous
vacation, then just live comfortably the rest of my
life.
<3 Lev Love <3
Harvard Yale Game Pranks
Harvard Fight Song
Real Harvard Yale Pranks
There have been two ‘famous’ pranks pulled during the
Harvard Yale Game by MIT — this assumes of course that
MIT can produce anything famous.
“Ten Thousand Men of Harvard”
During the pregame show in 1992, the Harvard Marching
band wanted to X out Yale’s Precision Marching Band while
they were standing in their traditional Y formation. However, the Yallies somehow caught wind of this plan and
thwarted
Harvard by instead quickly forming a large H,
thereby making Harvard X themselves out — DOH!
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard want victory today
In 1982, during the second quarter, right after Harvard
score a gigantic, black weather balloon that had been
hidden by MIT students, exploded spraying the entire field For they know that o'er old Eli
with talcum powder. More importantly, Harvard won 457.
Fair Harvard holds sway.
Less impressively, on November 18 of 1990 , MIT students
again managed to produce a miniature rocket, not too
different from the kinds made by boy scouts all across the
U.S. at the age of twelve, that shot across the goal post.
Interestingly enough, the rocket packed enough power to
support a measly MIT banner on its back.
So then we'll conquer all old Eli's men,
And when the game ends we'll sing again:
Ten thousand men of Harvard gained vict'ry today.
Random Facts: Thanksgiving
Gimbel’s was the first department store to throw a Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1920.
Sarah Hale (1788-1879) is whom you should thank for pushing
congress to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. She was the
editor of a woman’s magazine called “Godey’s Lady’s Book.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt established Thanksgiving as the
fourth Thursday of every November.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S RIDDLE:
Leaves.
The “first Thanksgiving” on current American soil actually occurred in Texas when Francisco Coronado stopped at the Palo
Duro Canyon one autumnal morning in 1541 to celebrate a
Eucharist Thanksgiving.
THIS WEEKS WORD GAMES:
What 5 letter word can be rearranged 3 times to get 3
different words each containing 1 more syllable? The word
has no duplicates of letters.
Each year, the president pardons a turkey from being killed
and eaten. The lucky turkey is sent to a farm named Frying Pan
Park in Herndon, Virginia.
1)----- 1 syllable
2)----- 2 syllable
3)----- 3 syllable
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the new nation’s
symbolic bird. Thomas Jefferson opposed this vehemently. In
spite, Franklin christened a male turkey “Tom,” which is the
origin of the traditional “Tom the Turkey” name.
In 2004, Yale Students handed out placards to approximately
2000 Harvard Adult Fans. When held up, they read, “WE
SUCK.” Despite Yale’s futile efforts, Harvard still won that
game, 35-3.
In 1961, in New Haven, Connecticut, the Harvard Crimson
made a fake, parody version of the “Yale Daily News” in
which they claimed that President Kennedy would be in attendance at that year’s game. At the game, Robert Smith
(then
President of the Crimson) sat in the stands while
wearing a Kennedy mask and had some of his friends dress
up as secret service agents sit around him. Before the game,
in disguise, Smith walked onto the field while the Harvard
Band played “Hail to the Chief.” Thousands of sports writers
and fans were fooled by this prank. It was not until later
news reports that people found out that Kennedy was not at
the game, but instead listened to it on the radio.
Happy Thanksgiving Break!