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Inside: Pre-anksgiving, Survival Tips, and Senior Reections 11.19.2015

11.19.15 The Indy is in #solidaritY. The Harvard-Yale Vol. XLVII, No. 10 Issue CONTENTS Cover design by Anna Papp Inside: Pre--anksgiving, Survival Tips, and Senior Reeections

President Anna Papp '16 Editor-in-Chief Shaquilla Harrigan '16 Director of Production Sean Frazzette '16 3 Home for the Holidays News Editor Aditya Agrawal '17 4 H-Y Survival Guide Forum Editor Eloise Lynton '17 Arts Editor Michael Luo '16 5 Do You Even Harvard-Yale? Sports Editor Caroline Cronin '18 Design Editor Anna Papp '16 6 Being Thankful Associate Forum Editor Caroline Gentile '17 7 The Big Prep Associate Arts Editor Andrew Lin '17 Illustrator Yaara Yacoby '17 8 Gothic versus Puritan Designers Alice Linder '17 9 Gothic versus Puritan Abigail Parker '17 10 Artistic Battles Staff Writers Albert Murzakhanov ‘16 11 Last Time on the Grid Iron Whitney Gao '16 Manik Bhatia '16 12 H-Y: Numbers Edition Terilyn Chen '16 Chloe Li '16 Dominique Luongo '17 As 's weekly undergraduate newsmagazine, the Harvard Orlea Miller '16 Independent provides in-depth, critical coverage of issues and events of interest Frank Tamberino '16 to the Harvard College community. The Independent has no political affiliation, Jackie Leong '16 instead offering diverse commentary on news, arts, sports, and student life. Madi Taylor '16 For publication information and general inquiries, contact President Anna Shreya Vardhan '17 Papp ([email protected]). Letters to the Editor and comments Peyton Fine '17 regarding the content of the publication should be addressed to Editor-in-Chief Ritchey Howe '17 Shaquilla Harrigan ([email protected]). Hannah Kates '18 For email subscriptions please email [email protected]. Chris Riley '17 The Harvard Independent is published weekly during the academic year, except Andrew Adler '17 during vacations, by The Harvard Independent, Inc., Student Organization Center Sally Yi '18 at Hilles, Box 201, 59 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Copyright © 2015 Hunter Richards '18 by The Harvard Independent. All rights reserved. Farhana Nabi ‘16 Pulkit Agarwal ‘19 Audrey Effenberger ‘19

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International Thanksgiving What non-Americans do for the five-day holiday. By DANIEL UM

bserved every year on the to stay with his roommate Jacob Thanksgiving festivities on campus fourth Thursday in November, Russell ‘19, who plans to share with and then joined his roommate OAmerican Thanksgiving Day Shen the full American Thanksgiving back home to experience first hand is a celebration that was originally experience – family, food and football. American Thanksgiving customs. meant to give thanks for the blessings It is also a tradition in the Russell Benjamin Jimenez ’19 of Northeastern of the fall harvest. Today, it has household to drink cider made from had a mini family reunion in Los become a tradition of reuniting the apples on his family’s property, Angeles with cousins, who are also families over football games and and this is something that he is international students. Ariana Mapua a cornucopia of food. Additionally, excited to share with Shen. Jeewon ’19 of Carnegie Mellon also planned many families have created their Lee ’18 spent last year’s Thanksgiving to visit her stateside family but own thanksgiving traditions, such in New York with her parents who flew Thanksgiving turned into a “funky” as volunteering in soup kitchens, from Manila, Philippines to be with adventure. She trekked up to Canada attending or viewing the New York her. This year, once again, her parents to ski at Mont Tremblant, visited City Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and will be joining her in NYC, as they friends at McGill, and “chilled” with a breaking the turkey’s wishbone for a cousin in Montreal. wish. During the five-day break, most As an American citizen, born and college students return home to bond “As an American citizen, raised in Manila, Philippines, I am in a with family members; but what about unique situation. My family celebrates international students who have no born and raised in Manila, Thanksgiving in Manila with other kin in America? Philippines, I am in a unique American expatriates, and staples of Through media and cultural stuffed turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, diffusion, most international students situation.” and pecan or apple pie. However our are knowledgeable about the feast is fused with Filipino dishes stereotypical American Thanksgiving believe Thanksgiving should be spent of pancit noodles and fried banana traditions; however, unless they are with family. Also in NYC, Lee will be turons. While this is going to be my first ethnically or culturally American, rekindling friendships with her high Thanksgiving away from home, I am many have not experienced it first- school buddies from British School excited to be spending it ‘international- hand. Fortunately, attending a college Manila. A junior, who chooses not to be style.’ Thanksgiving Day will be spent in the gives many named, wasn’t able to go anywhere for with my grandparents and uncle in internationals the opportunity to Thanksgiving and stayed on campus New Jersey, and “Airbnb-ing” with my participate in the festivities, and, last year. However, he did manage international college friends in New hopefully, have a greater appreciation to attend the Thanksgiving meal at York City. We will have our eclectic of American traditions and culture. Adams House, which was “kind of feast of food from Haiti, China, the The five-day break may be ample time Harry Potter-esque.” Despite the long Philippines and many other countries, for American students to travel home, trip, James Nakajima ’18 flew back to and I will prepare my specialty of but for international students it is London to spend time with his family. chicken and pork adobo. I will also somewhat costly and time-prohibitive However this year, he finds it “hard to meet with my high school friends from to do the same. For this reason, most justify going home for that amount of International School Manila, all the international students typically join time” so Nakajima will be spending while thanking this beautiful holiday American friends, stay on campus or time with his uncle near Boston. for being the ideal time to celebrate visit high school friends in major cities. International students in other with family and friends, old and new. Daniel Shen ’19 from Toronto, universities face a similar predicament Canada, for instance, is taking the of where to go for Thanksgiving. Daniel Um ‘19 ([email protected]. bus down to Cooperstown, New York Midori Fujitani ’19 from Bangkok, edu) can’t wait to have a Friendsgiving. attending Goucher College, organized

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Entering Enemy Territory How to do Harvard-Yale at Yale right. sleep through the tailgates, which are By CAROLINE GENTILE definitely more important and more fun than the game itself. When does one start tailgating, you ask? At real adies and gentleman, it’s that to not have a place to rest your weary state schools, tailgates often start time of year again: the infamous head between your late night out at as early as 5am, but given the later Lweekend when students of Toad’s and your early wakeup call to kickoff time this year, only the truly Harvard College become students of start tailgating. dedicated will start that early. Official Harvard State. The game is upon us. Once you drop off your bag of tailgates begin around 11AM, but you But wait. It’s at Yale this year. What’s essential belongings wherever you’re want to make sure that you’re “ready” a Harvard State student to do? staying, you are probably ravenous. for them, if you know what I mean. Luckily for you, my little party Time for dinner! New Haven is not Before taking one of the shuttles, animals, I have compiled some tips known for a lot of things, but they or walking 30 minutes, over to the on how navigate the Game when it are known for their pizza. So eat the , make sure you are wearing is hosted in the treacherous armpit multiple layers of Harvard clothing. of New England, otherwise known Most people go for the H sweater as New Haven. Not only is dragging “But honestly, I have to say, or a Harvard sweatshirt over long yourself away from the beck and call the MVP of your Harvard- underwear, along with a Harvard hat. of homework to go to the game often a But honestly, I have to say, the MVP of struggle, but also, having to actually Yale experience will be your Harvard-Yale experience will be go to Yale adds a whole other layer mittens with the fingertips mittens with the fingertips that still of complexity to this day of historic let you text. Not only will your hands tradition (read: drunken debauchery). that still let you text. Not only be warm, but you’ll also be able to use For one, now you have to figure will your hands be warm, your phone to take plenty of selfies! out how to get there! Thankfully, you You won’t actually be able to use your have options. Oftentimes, social clubs but you’ll also be able to use phone once you’re at the game because will have their own buses to and from your phone to take plenty of there is never any service with that Yale, but HSA also offers buses on selfies! many people in one location. Friday afternoon, Saturday morning This leads me to my final tip: have and evening, and Sunday morning. If a Harvard-Yale buddy. This is the you aren’t one for buses, rent a car pizza, for it is literally the only good person you travel with, stay with, and with a group of friends and carpool thing they have to offer (besides gothic rage with while you’re at Yale. Since together. Just make sure at least one architecture, if you’re into that). communication gets difficult with the person in your group plans to stick to In terms of nightlife the night before lack of service and the abundance of their typical Harvard student roots the game, Toad’s is the spot. Perhaps alcohol, it is definitely a good idea to throughout the weekend and stays my favorite thing about Harvard- always stick with your buddy to make sober. Yale at Yale is going to Toad’s, a dive- sure you both stay safe and, well, Now that you’re there, where do bar-turned-club, and seeing literally survive. you stay? There are a few options: everybody. Unlike at Harvard where Armed with all of these tips, you are stay in your House’s sister residential there is not really one place for now ready to take on the best weekend college’s basement, stay with a friend everyone to get together, Yale has of the semester. However, if you decide or friend of a friend who actually has Toad’s, and it is pretty awesome. It’s to be lame and not go, make sure you the misfortune of being a Yale student, 19+ though, so freshmen, make sure buy your ticket as early as you can so or make a new friend (wink wink, your fake order makes it before the you can sell it at double the price!!! nudge nudge). I don’t recommend the game! latter given the sketchy characters After raging your face off at Toad’s Caroline Gentile ’17 ([email protected] one would likely find in New Haven, and hopefully getting some sleep, vard.edu) actually made up all of these tips but I do recommend planning ahead you wake up, and it’s game day. Set because, let’s be honest, she barely remembers on this one. The last thing you want is multiple alarms. You do not want to any of her Harvard-Yale experiences.

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The Quiz Just the things you ought to know. By SEAN FRAZZETTE

ith this year’s Game Wapproaching, The Questions: 4) Who won the very first Game? 7) What is the name of the Yale Indy wants readers as a. Harvard mascot? informed as possible 1) Who won last year’s Game? b. Yale a. Ugly Dan about the oldest game in a. Harvard c. Collegiate School b. college football. And with b. Yale d. None of the Above c. Handsome Dan XVII The Game being played c. MIT Pranksters d. Handsome Dan XXX almost every year since d. The Harvard Band 5) What was the score of the first 1875, it is difficult to keep Game? 8) Who did Lee Corso pick in track of all the history, 2) How about The Game before a. 12-7 2014? tomfoolery, and revelry that? b. 4-0 a. Harvard that surround the rivalry. a. Harvard c. 37-12 b. Yale So, without further ado, b. Yale d. 29-29 c. Kirk Herbstreit here is a quiz to both test c. The Tailgaters d. Handsome Dan XVII your knowledge and fill d. Toads 6) Who scored Harvard’s only in what you may have touchdown in their 21-7 loss in 9) Who is going to win in 2015? missed. The Harvard 3) Okay, let’s get more difficult. 1955? a. Harvard Independent presents Who won The Game in 1968? a) John F. Kennedy b. Harvard nine questions for nine a. Harvard b) Edward Kennedy c. Harvard straight wins. b. Yale c) Someone who isn’t a Kennedy d. Harvard c. Both d) Why would we ask if it d. Neither weren’t a Kennedy? Answers: dumb copy editors published the headliner: 7) The correct answer is in fact (c) Handsome 1) Harvard won last year 31-24, which was their “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.” Dan XVII. He has been the mascot since 2007, eight straight victory. Notably, it was also the very and Yale will replace him with Handsome Dan first time The Game was featured as the Game of 4) Harvard won the very first Game, naturally. XVIII just like they did to Handsome Dan XVI. the Week for College Gameday, Theoretically, if The answer (c) is actually Yale’s original name, Cruel, cruel school. College Gameday had existed in the late 1890s when it was simply a small school taught out of and early 1900s, Harvard-Yale would have been some guy’s house. 8) He picked Yale and was wrong. It is commonly the Game of the Week more often. Alas assumed that he picked the inferior school 5) The first game ended with Harvard winning because they have a mascot and we have a color, 2) Harvard won 34-7 in the Yale Bowl. This was 4 goals and 2 touchdowns to 0. Back then, thus not allowing him to put on our “mascot” just to rub it in Yale’s face. apparently, field goals and touchdowns were kept head. He could have painted his face. separately, with the latter not even counting for 3) Trick question, the answer in (d) Neither. This points. What an odd game. 9) Go Harvard. Roll Crimson. game is one of the most famous, with Harvard rallying from a 29-13 deficit with two minutes 6) Edward “Ted” Kennedy scored our lone Sean Frazzette ’16 ([email protected]. remaining to tie the game. Famously, another touchdown. The Kennedys always did find a way edu) has no doubts about this year. newspaper with either somewhat witty or very to score it seems.

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Harvard-Yale is really about. If Yale got Thank You a point every time someone asked about the rules for football, maybe they’d win for Why Harvard-Yale makes me thankful. once. By HUNTER RICHARDS 10.How much apparel I can buy that has Harvard’s logo or crimson on it. Because we all know going to the game t this point in the semester, pformer Pfoho housemasters recently were without at least three layers of clothing there’s a lot to be thankful caught up in an email scandal that ended in on is an even worse life decision than not Afor and not just because Silliman* students protesting and gaining making it to the game because you’re still Thanksgiving Break is coming up. national press coverage. sleeping off the night before. When people With Harvard-Yale this weekend and *Also thankful that our worst dorm name say they wish they could freeze time, they only a few more weeks before winter is Hurlbut really don’t mean becoming frostbitten. break, here are some of the things I’m most thankful for: 5.How great clubs are at making puns 11....and all the free crimson gear at Yale’s expense. Harvard students get right before the 1.That the only time I have to go to Yale Yuck Fale will never get old, but it’s like game. is every other year for “Harvard-Yale” a holiday seeing all the ways Harvard As a broke college student, free is my Showing up decked out in Harvard students make fun of Yale. While Harvard favorite type of everything right next to gear, of course. I’ve always looked better students come from a variety of different anything Harvard-related. From the gloves in Crimson anyways. It’s nice getting backgrounds and have a vast array of conducive to texting (because if you aren’t away from Harvard’s classic red brick interests, we can all agree that Yale sucks. making statuses about Harvard-Yale, and busy campus life near the Harvard are you really living it?) to shirts, there’s Square station to appreciate some gothic 6.That the sophomore slump implies it really no excuse to not be fully dressed- architecture in The Middle of Nowhere, only lasts for part of sophomore year up in school colors. It’s also important to . Fingers crossed I get out lucky like I did remember that as much as we say hell with the Freshman Fifteen*. will freeze over before Yale wins again, it’s 2.Sister houses *No one said anything about Freshman going to be so cold you’ll start to reconsider While we might joke that Yale is kind of Summer Fifteen the choice of words. the Jan Brady to our Marsha Brady, Yalies don’t have any animosity when it comes 7.That the upperclassmen houses have 12.Friends who live closer to campus to providing an inflatable mattress for their own gyms after Thanksgiving than I do. Harvardians to pass out on for the weekend. dinner During Thanksgiving break, Harvard Not that I plan on using it but it’s nice to clears out faster than Yalies do after losing 3.That people stop complaining about know that I could. the game. Having friends closer to campus how far away the Quad is when they is great and offers the chance to get off get to Yale. 8.How Harvard’s break for campus and rejoin civilization with the After waiting all week and paying for bus Thanksgiving conveniently falls on perks of sleeping in a real bed again and tickets, students have over two hours to the week after Harvard-Yale. having dinner that doesn’t make you regret remember why they love Harvard on the Because we all need extra time recovery not splurging on Panera for once. way to Yale. Meanwhile, the Quad-Yard time to study for all the finals, midterms, shuttle comes every ten minutes instead of unit papers, and life we put off for the So before you board the buses to Yale, every other year... weekend. After we get out of the inevitable remember to bring all your Crimson food coma, that is. pride and think about all the things 4.That Yale took the Christakises off of you are thankful for. Harvard’s hands. 9.When Harvard students actually try Yale couldn’t quite handle the ‘Veritas’ to understand football for a weekend. Hunter Richards ‘18 (hrichards@college. that they took from Harvard, either… The Even though the football game isn’t what harvard.edu) is also thankful for #solidaritY.

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The Game Plan Why you should probably thank the OSL if you have a fun time at The Game this year. By ADITYA AGRAWAL

t’s that one time of the year when residents of individual Houses can high on the OSL priority list. “For a Harvard students get to be normal stay in designated spaces at their lot of students, it is their first time Icollege students –not without some respective ‘sister’ colleges. All of the of encountering such unbounded help from the Office of Student Life upperclassmen house committees drinking,” Fitzgerald said. (OSL), of course. have been working alongside the OSL The OSL will be sending a team of As Harvard football gets ready to to ensure that Harvard students have HUPD officers who will stay on hand crush Yale at the Game this weekend, place to sleep. through the Game and the night the OSL is getting ready to ensure that Marking a major break from the before to help out with any incidents the student body has a jolly good time. Games of years past, the OSL has also or unforeseen circumstances. To this The respective Offices of Student Life worked to keep the Yale dining halls end, the Office has also printed out a at the two universities are responsible open for brunch the morning before handy little booklet with a compact for planning the logistics of the game kick-off. Yale dining halls usually schedule of the contact details of the each year. close Friday night before the Game, relevant authorities and resources at Harvard’s OSL has navigated since students leave soon after for a both Harvard and Yale, in addition to several changes to Harvard-Yale weeklong Thanksgiving break. But the a list of events (and locations) that will events to ensure that students are dining halls will remain open Saturday take place over the two days. not only getting to the Game, but morning for Harvard affiliates with a Additional details can be found on they are doing so safely. Now that the student ID. a dedicated website and a Yale Events game starts later this year at 2:30 The OSL is also responsible for app that has been created for the PM, several students voiced concerns organizing the official tailgates before purposes of the Game. about getting back to the Yale campus the Game. After tailgate space is from the football stadium at night. allotted to the College, it lotteries Aditya Agrawal ‘17 (adityaagrawal@college. (Yale’s central campus is about a off tables to individual Houses in a harvard.edu) wishes every weekend could be thirty-minute walk away from the manner similar to the Housing Lottery, Harvard-Yale weekend. Yale Bowl.) Accordingly, the Yale and said Pilar I. Fitzgerald ‘15, one of the Harvard OSL’s have collaborated fellows for student life at the OSL. to ensure more frequent shuttles Fitzgerald also said that the location between the stadium and the main for this year’s tailgate is smaller than campus, in addition to collaborating that of previous years but with greater with Harvard Student Agencies and inter-college interaction. “On one side, the Undergraduate Council to ensure there will be the Harvard students, early shuttles back from Yale to and on the other side the Yalies, with Harvard. a DJ in the middle,” said Fitzgerald. Early into the fall semester, Student groups can also register Harvard’s OSL began corresponding with the OSL to organize their own with its counterpart at Yale to tailgates outside the tennis courts, strategize social programming for which will be hosting the official the Game, along with overnight college tailgates. accommodation for Harvard students. For a game that has historically Each House has been matched with been preceded by a night of drunken a ‘sister’ Yale residential college, and revelries, student safety figures

The Harvard Independent • 11.19.15 harvardindependent.com 7 Crimson Cornices and Bulldog Balustrades A competitive comparison of the architectural settings of Harvard and Yale By ANDREW LIN

or the budding Harvard-Yale at- architecture compare with Yale’s? The sesses a distinguished architectural tendee, there are many prepara- Indy Arts section has therefore de- heritage hailed by New York Times Ftions to be made for the big game: cided to take on this onerous question architecture critic (and Yale graduate) what shuttle to take, what sleeping ac- in the competitive and sporting spirit Paul Goldberger as “some of the best commodations to slump into at the end of the Harvard-Yale game – a game American architecture of the past hun- of each night, what parties to attend, which, like this article, will hopefully dred years.” And indeed he does have etc. Perhaps the most essential prep- demonstrate Harvard’s continuing su- a point: a host of architectural stars aration for any uninitiated Harvard- premacy in all things collegiate. ranging from Louis I. Kahn to Eero Yale attendee, however (I’m looking at Any understanding of this critical Saarinen have all designed prominent you, freshmen), is the viewing of a sim- question is contingent on a firm un- campus buildings at Yale. Nor is Yale’s ple video. This video, however, is not a derstanding of Yale’s own architectur- older architecture anything bland: its mere a breakdown of the best parties/ al history and heritage. We all know soaring Gothic architecture stands in accommodations/free food at the game, (at least in brief) the architectural stark contrast to the straight-laced but instead is something much better: history of Harvard: founded in 1636, Federal stylings of so many other uni- Sam Clark’s hilarious 2013 Harvard- Harvard steadily expanded from the versities – Harvard included. Yale prank video, in which free tours Yard along resolutely colonial lines, A quick walk through the campus, and the virtues of Gothic architecture albeit with some occasional red-brick however, reveals more similarities were hawked to unsuspecting visitors. Richardsonian Romanesque-type than one would expect. The story of ar- But the architectural leitmotif that flourishes (think Sever Hall) in the chitecture at Yale starts in 1701 with a Sam Clark treated with so much irrev- 19th century and a decent heaping of smattering of red-brick colonial build- erence nonetheless presents an inter- fairly questionable Brutalist edifices ings, one a church and the other a gen- esting comparison: how does Harvard’s in the 20th century. Yale, however, pos- eral-purpose college building. These

The Harvard Independent • 04.23.15 harvardindependent.com 8 INDY ARTS Crimson Cornices and Bulldog Balustrades, continued

or the budding Harvard-Yale at- Yard along resolutely colonial lines, the oldest colonial-era edifice on the tendee, there are many prepara- albeit with some occasional red-brick campus, and Old Brick Row has seen Ftions to be made for the big game: Richardsonian Romanesque-type many architectural additions since its what shuttle to take, what sleeping ac- flourishes (think Sever Hall) in the first buildings were constructed in the commodations to slump into at the end 19th century and a decent heaping of mid-1700s. These architectural addi- of each night, what parties to attend, fairly questionable Brutalist edifices tions, however, have been altogether etc. Perhaps the most essential prep- in the 20th century. Yale, however, pos- grander in scope compared to the aration for any uninitiated Harvard- sesses a distinguished architectural Gilded-Age freshman dorms Harvard Yale attendee, however (I’m looking at heritage hailed by New York Times saw in the late 1800s. Whether in the you, freshmen), is the viewing of a sim- architecture critic (and Yale graduate) form of the imposing Victorian Gothic ple video. This video, however, is not a Paul Goldberger as “some of the best Dwight Hall Library or the turreted mere a breakdown of the best parties/ American architecture of the past hun- and arched affectations of Phelps Hall, accommodations/free food at the game, dred years.” And indeed he does have Yale presents a formidable assortment but instead is something much better: a point: a host of architectural stars of Gothic buildings to rival even the Sam Clark’s hilarious 2013 Harvard- ranging from Louis I. Kahn to Eero twin towers of Weld or the elaborate Yale prank video, in which free tours Saarinen have all designed prominent stone-work on Matthews Hall back in and the virtues of Gothic architecture campus buildings at Yale. Nor is Yale’s the Yard. were hawked to unsuspecting visitors. older architecture anything bland: its The similarities between the Har- But the architectural leitmotif that soaring Gothic architecture stands in vard and Yale campuses do not stop Sam Clark treated with so much irrev- stark contrast to the straight-laced there, however. Any undergraduate erence nonetheless presents an inter- Federal stylings of so many other uni- seeking to find housing for the Game esting comparison: how does Harvard’s versities – Harvard included. know of the sisterly relationships be- architecture compare with Yale’s? The A quick walk through the campus, tween the upperclassmen houses at Indy Arts section has therefore de- however, reveals more similarities Harvard and Yale, whose 12 houses cided to take on this onerous question than one would expect. The story of ar- (ignoring the Dudley Co-Op, which is in the competitive and sporting spirit chitecture at Yale starts in 1701 with a usually folded in with Pforzheimer) of the Harvard-Yale game – a game smattering of red-brick colonial build- match up each year to provide accom- which, like this article, will hopefully ings, one a church and the other a gen- modations. Of these matched pairs, demonstrate Harvard’s continuing su- eral-purpose college building. These Yale’s upperclassmen houses do to premacy in all things collegiate. buildings would soon form the nexus some extent excel their Harvard coun- Any understanding of this critical of Yale’s Old Brick Row, a collection of terparts on an aesthetic level: while question is contingent on a firm un- freshman dormitories and humanities the vertical Mather House does as- derstanding of Yale’s own architectur- buildings fairly reminiscent of Har- sert its dominance over the rest of al history and heritage. We all know vard Yard. The similarities do not stop the river houses with a sort of blunt (at least in brief) the architectural there: Old Brick Row is graced with power, it pales in comparison to the history of Harvard: founded in 1636, a that nicely paral- subtler, rooted-in-the-earth nature of Harvard steadily expanded from the lels Harvard’s Massachusetts Hall as Eero Saarinen’s altogether more re-

9 harvardindependent.com The Harvard Independent • 11.19.15 INDY ARTS Paint Wars Harvard and Yale’s Museums battled it out. By JESS CLAY

y the time we got to New Haven, thought reflected more on a flaw in the shell, and bewildered as I was by the in- we were more than ready to get off Yale Art Gallery’s policy or my personal terior layout, I was beguiled by the collec- B the bus. It was one of those charter neuroses, but at any rate it captured my tion. The museum featured 70,000 square numbers, fifty-six seats or so, and there attention. feet of space – dwarfing the Harvard Art was a bathroom in the back of the bus that The building itself captivated me as Museums’ 43,000—and Yale made the slowly but steadily emitted the noxious well, in the way that industrial-grade ac- most of it. Where Harvard seemed lucky fumes of bathroom solvents reserved for cidents and scars captivate us. The Yale to have rooms dedicated to African or buses and airplanes. Yet most of us had Art Gallery was an exquisite corpse of a Indo-Pacific art, Yale had entire wings. slept for two hours despite the smell – or museum. It was comprised of three build- The Euro-centric portions of the mu- maybe because of its slightly ammoniac ings, built decades apart, now fused into seum were overflowing with both works and anesthetic qualities – and we were an unholy amalgamation that proved and people - at times dangerously so, as glad to disembark for the Yale Art Gal- pure hell for the unsuspecting visitor. The we saw a passing woman collide with a lery, textbooks cases of the bright-eyed first building we entered was mid-century frame on the wall as the security guard and the bushy-tailed. Our group included modernist work, designed by Louis Kahn looked on helplessly. The American col- a good cross section of the Harvard Art in the early fifties. The second, built in lection was also exceptional, dating back Museums personnel. Among us were Stu- 1928, was made to look like a Romanesque to the earliest years of the Yale Art Gal- dent Tour Guides, undergraduate board church, rife with limestone and humble lery in the 1830’s. In a series of twelve members, museum department lead- arches. The last part of the museum was paintings of the American Revolution by ers, and graduate students in art-relat- the first one built, dating to 1866 and of John Trumbull, both a nation and its my- ed fields, and we all found counterparts the neo-Gothic style that would come to thology were born. Most famous of these awaiting us at the Gallery’s entrance. We define the Yale campus. On its own, each was The Declaration of Independence, made brief introductions and the major- portion was tolerable, even commendable. the image that likely forms the basis of year-hometown small talk before receiv- But I thought them strange on the out- whatever comes to mind when you imag- ing a more formal welcome and setting side, connected as they were, and I found ine that scene in Independence Hall. Of out to tour the museum. the melding a hundredfold worse on the course, the Committee of Five never stood Our guides gave abridged versions of inside. Evidently, architects devised dif- together as Trumbull depicted them, and their tours, stopping at two objects along ferent conceptions of floor height be- not all 56 signers were present at the the way. I will not delve any deeper on tween 1866 and 1953, a historical chest- document’s presentation. But the iconic those objects other than to say that the nut manifested by the fact that the upper painting, historical revisions and all, first was a snow shovel hanging from the floors were not flat. Instead, you had to nevertheless made its way into a life-size ceiling, and the second intentionally re- go upstairs to get from the third floor to version in the Capitol, a pocket-sized ver- sembled a graffiti-ed wall. The objects the other third floor, or go downstairs to sion on the back of the two-dollar bill, a made the tour somewhat interesting, but get from the fourth floor to part of the litany of school textbooks, and ultimately I found myself more interested by the second floor, then downstairs again to get the national consciousness. fact that each visitor was given a porta- to the main second floor. What this mu- ble, foldable stool to sit on as they looked seum needed were several magical mov- To read more, see: at the art. I am a tour guide at the Har- ing staircases, like Hogwarts has. What www.harvardindependent.com vard Art Museums, and where others saw it had instead were several large pains in “portable, foldable stool” I immediately the ass as you tried to navigate its laby- Jess Clay ‘17 ([email protected]) saw “blunt object capable of catastrophic rinthine merge points. thinks that whatever the Yale lacks in its art mu- damage to the art.” I do not know if this Yet bedeviled as I was by the outer seum, it lacks far more in its football team.

The Harvard Independent • 11.19.15 harvardindependent.com 10 INDY SPORTS Why it’s Not Called Yale-Harvard Harvard to Battle Yale in the 132nd Game. By CAROLINE C. CRONIN

ou have felt it – a palpable tension this title all to our well-deserving selves. again. So it’s important to cherish every mounting in the yard, at the river Triumph on the final day of the season also single day. But as seniors there are a lot of Yand even in the quad! As the crim- means the Crimson will have won the all- guys who had season ending injuries ear- son of the foliage continues to fade it only Ivy three consecutive years in a row – the lier in the year that had they been soph- blooms with a fury among the jubilant first time every in history! omore or a junior they’d be able to come throng. And the reason for these festival These records on the line mean even back and play more football but because rites? The 132nd playing of The Game draws more to the seniors who will be playing in we’re seniors this is it.” near. The battle set for 2:30 post meridian their last Harvard-Yale game. For many, Sobering words, indeed, but accurate. Saturday, November 21st is to take place at this will be the end of their football careers As countless movies, books and TV shows the historic and slightly inconvenient Yale and they would love nothing more than to have reiterated (hello Friday Night Lights), Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut. finish with a victory over our ancient rival. playing in these games and on a team like The has had a win- Captain Matt Koran ’16, on his final season ours is a truly transformative experience ning season going 8-1 and 5-1 in the Ivy said, “It has been really special. My motto not to be dismissed. Four years at Harvard League. Yale this year has gone 6-3 and 3-3 is been to take advantage of every single flies by, seniors and alumni will attest, so it Ivy. Currently – but not for long – Harvard opportunity I have. I’m not going to play is best to cherish it now. lags in the series record 58-65-8. However, football after this year and I knew that go- With this in mind, the Crimson head to since official play has began ing into it. So just giving it everything that New Haven confident and eager. Koran in 1956, Harvard holds the advantage of I have and laying it all on the line every knows that the team is “Absolutely gonna 34-24-1. We must not forget that Harvard single opportunity that I got.” Earning his beat Yale! Especially with Yale, especially dominated in the first ever playing of The election as captain he also stated that he with this game there is a lot on the line. Game, and will (I predict) do so in the last. is consistently “trying to make sure that I We’re fighting for a championship and we The score of last year’s exciting game held get the same out of the rest of my team so can make history by winning this game.“ at home was 31-24 and made the program just having fun out there, playing football, The Crimson needs no more than that to record of an 8-game winning streak in the enjoying it, trying to make big plays and leave it all on the field. According to Ho- series. This is matched to previous series win games while we’re doing that.” sch, “I think we always have motivation to record of 8 straight victories of Yale win- Starting quarterback Scott Hosch ’16 play Yale, playing the big game – so much ning 1880-1889. A nine game winning echoes that sentiment knowing that “Just tradition. And the University is really re- streak will be a series record and just one being senior season, having a role, and be- ally depending on us. So yeah there is the more way we prove we are far superior to ing a leader on the team” is very special. record on the line but we’re just focusing the Bulldogs. These players certainly have been leaders on winning the game.” Furthermore, Harvard is in the running on the team this season more than ever. Therefore, as we flock to that God-for- for a share of the Ivy League title. Cur- Tight end Ben Braunecker looks back on saken place this weekend we fly the flag rently competing for that honor are Dart- it seriously: “As a senior it’s different just high and know that fair Harvard will hold mouth and Penn who also hold a 5-1 Ivy because it’s the season of the lasts which sway! Remember: Illegitimum non carbo- record. This weekend, a Crimson victory makes everything more real.” Braunecker rundum. will secure at least a share of the title. If makes sure to keep in mind those who Dartmouth loses to Princeton (cross your won’t be playing this year. “Naturally as Caroline Cronin ‘19 ([email protected]) fingers!) and Penn loses to Cornell (pray football players we do that because we’re grudgingly admits that some delusional Yalies might call to your spirit animal!), then we will have always one play away from never playing it Yale-Harvard.

The Harvard Independent • 11.19.15 harvardindependent.com 11 Harvard vs. Yale

by Audrey Effenberger