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Bedecked in their powder-blue House T-shirts, slightly tipsy from early-morning cocktails, and with faces and coifs streaked with distinctive red paint, Matherites marched triumphantly through the Yard waving placards emblazoned with sexual innuendoes en route to greeting newly-Housed freshmen outside of Annenberg Hall...
...exuberance and affection displayed by their welcoming embassies as well as their newest affiliates in Annenberg. As leonine and simian mascots romped through the hall, upperclassmen hoisted the colors and insignia of the armigerous Houses on banners, mouthing improvised panegyrics to their residences with unbridled enthusiasm. The privileged freshmen placed in Eliot or Adams undoubtedly interspersed their justified excitement with sighs of relief, as those “Quadded” unfortunates concealed their profound disappointment with airy-fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness—there...
...should it not? After the fleeting euphoria of Housing Day, freshmen will soon realize just how incomprehensible it is to cultivate a contrived “spirit” for a collection of structures—of red brick, if they are fortunate—that will only minimally impact their college life. Products of a completely randomized lottery, Harvard upperclassmen have little incentive to embrace the House into which they had been so haphazardly placed...
After weeks of trash-talking on open lists, furious debate about T-shirt designs, and age-old rituals dedicated to the housing gods, Housing Day arrived, a madhouse of early-morning wake-up calls, face paint, and screaming mascots. And just as freshmen reaction ranged yesterday from joy to tears, upperclassmen showed their House spirit in a variety of ways, from a moonbounce to a Beirut tournament. Mather House, long famed for its Housing Day fervor, gathered its army of over 100 residents to storm the Yard at 7 a.m., according to spirited Matherite Troy C. Murrell...
...simple one. “This is no small feat to do 12 events in three weeks, so people should be psyched about the amount of fun we are bringing to each House,” he said. “We hope the newly housed freshmen choose to come out and enjoy these events as well.” Goldenberg, who is also a Crimson editor, said that the CEB will use the Stein Club series to advertise for Yardfest. “We’ll be having a lot of Yardfest-related prizes and giveaways...