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Looking for a drinking game for Harvard-Yale that doesn’t involve conspicuous ping-pong balls? Look no further as the denizens of Eliot House—home of more Rhodes scholars than Yale—have adopted an original alternative: Stump. FM observed Eliot House’s weekly post-Stein Club game to see what the hype was all about. According to worldstump.com, “The origins of Stump are shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests it was invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers really know how to party on a Saturday night. Their music: the unintelligible buzzing of the police scanner. Their scene: the gritty, seedy nooks and crannies of the campus. FM was granted a tour of the College’s sordid underbelly—deserted back allies, dimly lit parking lots, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) showers—and this time, we sat in the front of the police car. The police log will never be the same. A minute-by-minute analysis: 8:14 p.m.: FM’s escort, officer Steven...
...spurious tip that local constables frequent a certain table at Harvard’s newly 24/7 Au Bon Pain, FM rises at the ungodly hour of 6:40 a.m. on a Friday morning to investigate...
After coffee, the cop steps outside to tell FM that the semiconscious girl is strung out at the moment. He’s talking her straight, but circa 7:40 a.m., it’s slow going...
...successfully identified the court’s victims by combing through newspaper records, death certificates, and Harvard archives. That fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers issued a statement apologizing to the families of the now-deceased expellees.All of that came out—in painstaking detail—when FM published its “Secret Court” cover story in November 2002. Wright’s new book, though, adds two notable insights into this episode:First, the book sheds light on Lowell’s own complicated attitude toward homosexuality. Wright never suggests that Lowell himself...