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...anger or imagination, or perhaps make no impression whatsoever. You will discover things that you may or may not wish to know, like the genesis of the tradition of shouting "Rinehart!" and the goldfish swallowing fad, which was originated in the Harvard Union on March 3, 1939 by Lothrop Withington Jr. '42. If kiosks, unionizing shuttle bus drivers and the proposed Third World center make you wonder what passed for controversy at Harvard in generations gone by, The Crimson Anthology will give you a taste...
Harvard administrators reacted with less enthusiasm, and Withington received a call from the dean's office. "There was nothing Harvard could do to me," he said. "It was perfectly harmless and wholesome--like stealing underwear from Radcliffe and tying it to a flagpole in Harvard Square," he added...
Describing his technique, Withington explained that he prefers not to swallow the fish live. "I figure if it can swim one way it can swim the other," he said...
...Withington commented on how student life at Harvard has changed, saying, "We were the last of the papered classes at Harvard. Tuition was $400, we still had biddies, and scholarship boys waited tables at the Union...
...Withington last swallowed a fish at his 25th reunion in 1967, donating the $100 he received to the University...