Homage to Halloween
Vol. 11 Issue 7. Week of October 25th.
Cameron Anaya, Jeremy Ying, Louis
Amira, Rebecca Levitan, Trieu Ton
Twas the night of Hall'ween, when all through Lev
House
Not a creature was stirring, except for one louse.
All my friends had gone out to their classy affairs
While alone in my dorm room I played solitaire.
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10/25 Harvard Japan Society's Otsukimi/
Rice Dumpling Study Break
Mon, 8pm – 10pm, Ticknor Lounge
10/26 DAPA Panel Discussion
Tu, 5:30pm – 7pm, Adams LCR
10/26 Ramen Bar
Tu, 8pm – 10pm, Holworthy Common Room
10/29 Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA Day of the
Dead Celebration
Fri, 8pm – 11pm, Lev Dhall
10/29 Adams' Sweet & Nasty
Fri, 10pm – 2am, Adams Dhall
10/30 The Harvard Breakers Presents: One
Sat, 7pm – 8:30pm, Lowell Lecture Hall
HOUSE EVENTS:
10/25 Applying to Law School
Mon, 7pm – 8:30pm, D-hall
10/25 Chemistry Night with Mahin Hemmati
Mon, 8pm – 10pm, D-entry Dining Room
10/25 Masters’ Open House
Mon, 8:30pm – 10:30pm, Masters’ Residence
10/28 Sherry Hour
Thu, 5pm – 6pm, SCR
10/28 Community Night!
Thu, 5pm – 7pm, D-hall
10/29 Stein Club
Fri, 9pm – 11pm, JCR
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The costumed kids 'round the campus sped
While visions of candy bars danced in their heads.
I stayed in to greet those poor little saps,
Since there wasn't a bar I hadn't unwrapped.
At the door, suddenly, there came such a clatter.
I sprang out of bed to see what's the matter.
Too late! For someone too unabashed
Stepped over the door so freshly smashed.
His skeleton bod did hauntingly flow
And the holes for his eyes did eerily glow
Conveying a most nefarious milieu:
The Pumpkin King's aura really chills you.
"Good, sir!" said he, "Why are you so loathe
To romp the cold streets whilst funnily clothed?
Thy liege you must serve, Grand Vizier of the Night,
Minister of Horrors, Master of Fright!"
At this I did shudder a terrible bout
For I knew in my heart without a trace of a doubt
That for this property damage I did not exact
My admission to Harvard the Ad Board'll retract.
I had to get him out so the place could be cleaned,
So in a desperate rage, I answered the fiend:
"On psets! On readings! On midterms! On essays!
I'm much, much to busy, JUST PLEASE GO AWAY!"
Then the piles of work whirled about with a rattle
To duel with the King in an unnatural battle
When with force I jerked my head from my desk,
Awakened from a dream most Franz-Kafka-esque.
'I had fallen asleep,' I thought as I stirred
Though from my desk in my bedroom I swore that I
heard
A voice contorted with malice and spite,
"Good All Hallow's Eve! And to all a good night...
Except you, you overworked pre-med!"
The End
You Might Be an Athlete If
*You know what the PD is, and what
happens there
*When you say “across the river,” it
is not a reference to HBS
*You’ve ever single-handedly
changed a section time before its
first meeting
*You’ve ever walked to Annenberg
just for hot breakfast, after lift, but
not before class
*You get a little excited for exam
period…because there are no mandatory lifts
*You have a letter sweater you’ve
never worn
*You’ve been to an athlete mixer
with the same other team (for the
third straight year)
*You get pumped for dHa’s every
fall (even though you remember the
days when they used to be free)
*You know why Frazier is the man…
although there are multiple times a
week you find yourself hating his
guts
*You know the feeling of cutting a
vacation short (or skipping one) to
be on campus for practice
Happy Halloween!
Halloween: Some Fun Facts
THE PAUL talks midterms
Dear Paul,
How do you study for midterms?
Signed,
TBF
Oh so you think I have to study, do you? Well you’re
right. Good looks may come easy to me, but I work for
my A’s. Obviously I can’t go to the populated spots like
house libraries or Lamont (the paparazzi get to me after
awhile) so I have to be a little creative. Have you ever
been to Pusey Stacks? Probably not. Let me tell you,
there are people down there that haven’t seen the sun
in weeks. Some PhD student was down there writing
her dissertation; no joke she had two pillows and a
suitcase behind her. I’m assuming she has no clue my
Yankees aren’t in the Series this year. To be honest, I
think she kind of wishes she was one of those Chilean
miners…all that seclusion and lack of distraction…but I
digress. The Pusey Stacks are awesome, way away from
cell phone signal, dining hall distractions and grenade
launchers—I find I can do my best work there. Nothing
like cuddling up with some index cards and a cheat
sheet 15 stories underground. Rumor has it, that’s the
place they would take a President if there was an attack
while he was on campus. Now that you all know my
spot, I’m going to have to switch it up again. I hear
Cabot basement is a good spot to get away from it all…
- Halloween was commonly referred to as "All Hollows" Eve. It originated
from the pagan holiday honoring the dead. The Roman Catholic Church
created All Saints Day (also called Hallomas) on November 1st to honor
Saints and All Souls Day on November 2 and to honor and pray for the
souls of the dead. These holidays were created by the church, in part to
downplay the pagan holidays. Needless to say, it did not succeed. Halloween as we know it today, has grown from the ancient Druid Holiday. Along
the way both fun, frights, and Satanic twists have been added to the mix.
- The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts wondered the streets
on all Hallows Eve so they began wearing masks and costumes in order to
not be recognized as human.
- The jack-o-lantern tradition comes from an old Irish folk tale about a
man named Stingy Jack. It was said that he was unable to get into heaven
and was turned away from the devil because of his tricky ways. So he set
off to wander the world looking for a resting place. For light, Stingy Jack
used a burning coal ember in a hollowed out turnip. When the Irish immigrated to the U.S. during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-1850, they
found that turnips were not as readily available like they were in the
homeland. So they started carving pumpkins as a replacement for their
tradition.
- On Halloween, Irish peasants would beg the rich for food. For those that
refused, they would play a practical joke. So, in an effort to avoid being
tricked, the rich would hand out cookies, candy, and fruit – a practice that
morphed into trick-or-treating today.
- Of all the candy sold annually, one quarter of it is sold during Halloween
time (September – November 10) making it the sweetest holiday of the
year.
- Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America
- The number one candy of choice for Halloween is Snickers
- There are an estimated 106 million potential treat-or-treat stops (i.e.,
housing units occupied year-round, per the U.S. Census)
- Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday, beat out
only by Christmas
- The U.S. consumer spends upwards of $1.5 billion on Halloween costumes annually and more than $2.5 billion on other Halloween paraphernalia, such as decorations, crafts, etc. More than $100,000 of that is said
to be spent online
- Candy sales in the U.S. for Halloween average $2 billion annually
- Halloween is the third biggest party day of the year behind New Year’s
and Super Bowl Sunday, respectively
- 86% of Americans decorate their homes at Halloween
- Halloween is the 8th largest card sending holiday. The first Halloween
greeting is dated back to early 1900 and today consumers spend around
$50 million dollars on Halloween cards each year.
- Of the pumpkins marketed domestically, 99% of them are used as Jack-o
-lanterns at Halloween
- Approximately 82% of children and 67% of adults take part in Halloween
festivities every year
Riddle: Horse Race
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S RIDDLE:
Make one of the prisoners the "lead" prisoner. This prisoner
is the ONLY one who is allowed to turn the light off. Each
time any of the other prisoners goes into the lobby, if the
light is off, they will turn the light on, but only if they've
never turned it on before. This means that each prisoner
will only ever turn the light on once. Meanwhile, every time
the lead prisoner goes into the lobby, he will turn the light
off if it's on. He will keep track of the number of times he
has turned the light off. Once the lead prisoner turns off the
light for the 99th time, he knows that every other prisoner
has turned the light on once (and thus has been in the
lobby). At this point, he may say that all the prisoners have
been to the lobby, and they will all go free.
THIS WEEK’S RIDDLE:
Two men ride their horses to the town blacksmith to ask for
his daughter's hand in marriage. To help decide who will get
to marry her, the blacksmith proposes a very strange race:
"You will race your horses down the mile-long road from
here to the center of town, and the man whose horse
passes through city hall's gates LAST will get to marry my
daughter."
The men have no idea how to proceed, but after a few minutes of thinking, they come up with a great idea to abide by
the blacksmith's rules. 30 minutes later, one of the men is
gloating, having won the daughter's hand in marriage.
What was the idea the men had?