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...university, they are decorated with bizarre slogans such as "Hurrah for Hate," "I Love Work," "Go God!" and "Go Time." Each pennant makes an iconoclastic and provocative statement as even the backs of the pennants are decorated with more variations on the original slogan, such as a cropped clock face on the back of "Go Time," and "nice job!" on the "God" pennant. The sarcasm of these banners is hidden under a veneer of cheerfulness, providing a truly different perspective on society and spirituality...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON ARTS STAFF | Title: PANORAMA | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...university, they are decorated with bizarre slogans such as "Hurrah for Hate," "I Love Work," "Go God!" and "Go Time." Each pennant makes an iconoclastic and provocative statement as even the backs of the pennants are decorated with more variations on the original slogan, such as a cropped clock face on the back of "Go Time," and "nice job!" on the "God" pennant. The sarcasm of these banners is hidden under a veneer of cheerfulness, providing a truly different perspective on society and spirituality...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...reclusive student gropes for a buzzing alarm clock. He pushes the snooze button--which releases a weight, which pulls a pulley, which, through some complicated mechanism, starts the shower, lays out his clothes, pours milk on his cereal and plops his thick black eyeglasses on the bridge of his nose. Does this man reside in Canaday? Leverett Towers? No. If four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...According to this essay, "each initiate is given $15,000 and a grandfather clock. Far from being a campus fun-house, the group is geared more toward the success of its members in the post-collegiate world." This may be true, but judging from students' reaction to questions about the societies, a Harvard reporter would never find out either...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: Public and Private: A Look at Princeton and Yale's Exclusive Clubs | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

According to this essay, "each initiate isgiven $15,000 and a grandfather clock. Far frombeing a campus fun-house, the group is geared moretoward the success of its members in thepost-collegiate world." This may be true, butjudging from students' reaction to questions aboutthe societies, a Harvard reporter would never findout either...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: YALE'S FINEST HOURS | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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