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Harvardisms: Harvard for Beginners

DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various river houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you're sophomores.

Due Date: The day you call your section leader for an extension on a paper (see extention).

Dunster House: Thank God it's not Mather.

Ec10: Introduction to capitalism taught by G.O.P. guru Martin "Marty" S. Feldstein '61 and his legion of teaching fellow disciples. Usually the most popular class at Harvard

Eliot House: 1. Where Theodore J. Kaczynski '62 spent his formative years.

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Extenstion: How to prolong writer's block.

Fast Food: Not an option for the hungry Harvard student, unless you're willing to take the hike to Porter Square.

Fenway Park: Home field of the much-maligned Boston Red Sox, perennial also-rans to the New York Yankees. Go now--this baseball landmark might be gone by the time you graduate.

Final clubs: 1. Eight endowed all-male clubs located in their own buildings. The center of some students' social lives, the members partied a little too hard for their graduate boards and many have closed their doors to the hoi polloi of late. 2. Bastions of socioeconomic elitism. Unlike Harvard, intelligence is not a prerequisite for acceptance.

First-Year Student: 1. What you will be in September. 2. Gender-neutral term for "freshman." Synonym: yardling.

Formal: What you called a prom in high school.

Fly-By: 1. A sandwich on the go when chicken parmesan just won't do. 2. The only reason to stop by Loker Commons.

The Game: Probably the only sporting event of the year you will attend. Luckily, this year The Game will be held at Harvard and you won't have to trek to New England's industrial wasteland in Connecticut.

Gentrification: What happened to Cambridge when rent control ends and the yuppie invasion began.

Gov Jock: 1. The obnoxious people in your sections who won't let anyone else get a word in edgewise. 2. Senators in training.

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