If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If scaffolding is spotted not supporting anything at all, is it still scaffolding? We think the man in the photo was probably pondering these questions. We know we were.

At about 4:20 p.m. on Monday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to a smoking trash can at the corner of JFK St. and South St. They took the trash can apart and extinguished the fire.

One firefighter, who was granted anonymity by The Crimson because firefighters are not allowed to talk to the press, said that the fire was caused by "excessive heat in a\xa0barrel."

Another suggested the fire may have been a result of a passerby throwing a lit cigarette butt into the trash can.

Did you spend the weekend inside, wistfully wondering where the summer went?

Well, thanks to the Sunday Parkland Games, you can enjoy the last weeks of humidity and visible grass with a side of downward dog. Hosted by\xa0the Charles River Conservancy and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the games run on Sundays (concluding on September 30th) from 2-5 p.m. near the Week\'s footbridge.\xa0', [])

It\'s been a long time since the last "From the Tip Box" post, which means that we have a number of months to look back on. April and May saw multiple mentions of FM\'s annual Fifteen Hottest (Hairiest?) Freshmen edition as well as allusions to a variety of animals. June seems to have had a culinary focus (perhaps a result of students missing HUDS?) while July brought in, almost exclusively, mentions of sex in its many different forms. September, and thus the beginning of school, seems to have transitioned our readers\' attention to more current and pressing events. As always, below you\'ll find a hilarious mixture of innocent search queries, serious tips, and Flyby-directed comments.

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This September, the Harvard Square Business Association is sponsoring a month-long celebration of Harvard Square\'s artistic and cultural heritage called "Revival Month"."Harvard Square used to be a place where people used to come together [and] play music, and it was such a wonderful celebration of folk music and tradition," said Denise Jillson, Executive Director of the HSBA.

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Just because we're the oldest college in the country doesn't mean we are the best. In fact, it doesn't even mean we crack the top five.", [])

Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

September 5, 1940: Off-Campus Entertainment Varies from Girls\' Colleges to Local Bars

Confidential Guide and official literature to the contrary, Harvard students do not concentrate exclusively on studying, trying out for the football team, or going to see the Dean. A good deal of a freshman\'s spare time is spent on the campuses of neighboring women\'s colleges, and in bars, dance halls, night clubs, theaters, and restaurants of Greater Boston.

Last year an exhaustive poll of the senior class taken for the Senior Album revealed, among other useless information, that the class of 1940 rated girls\' colleges in the following order of popularity: Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Bennington.

Radcliffe, Harvard\'s little sister, is the traditional butt of Harvard humor. The typical Radcliffeite is pictured as a bony female wearing flat-heeled shoes, and horn-rimmed glasses, and carrying half a dozen textbooks; usually her slip is showing. But the vote of the Class of 1940 seemed to belie that conception—or else last year\'s seniors liked them that way. Radcliffe is conveniently close, the girls are generally more intelligent than at other colleges, and they don\'t mind riding subways or sitting in the balcony. At the beginning of the year the Radcliffe Houses hold "get acquainted" teas. If you\'re too shy to go by yourself, you can get someone who knows the ropes to take you.

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In an election season as\xa0Crimson-tinged as this one (even the "New York Times"\xa0felt the need to report on the presidential candidates\' shared alma mater), it should come as no surprise that Harvard researchers are behind a 2009 political psychology study that\'s been\xa0trending across the blogosphere for the past several days. Their findings? That Mitt Romney is the new McSteamy. Herewith, your questions answered.

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Former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin \'60 made a splash at a cocktail party in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday. Rubin, who is a member of the Harvard Corporation—the University\'s highest governing body—fell into a pool at the party, as recorded in a tweet by Politico writer Lois Romano. The tweet, which appears to have since been taken down, can still be seen on Topsy, a social analysis website that records tweets as a means of garnering information.

The inaugural 1636'er of the 2012-2013 school year offered a pleasant surprise to those traveling to the Quad last night in the form of a brand new shuttle dripping with Harvard swag. The shuttle sports 30 cushy crimson-colored seats embroidered with Harvard's crest, as well as one booth with a folding table. Almost every seat has access to a 12V power outlet for use with car chargers, a curious change from the AC plugs on the shuttles added to the fleet last year. Keep your eyes peeled for it on Garden Street this week!

The life of an email list which, at the beginning of the week, stood poised to pester the vast majority of Harvard\'s student body seems to have been brief.

On Monday, students found themselves receiving unsolicited subscription notifications from a list called Anonymous-Harvard, which claimed to have a membership of "90 percent of active Harvard undergrads."

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Welcome, Class of 2016! All your hard work (or lies) paid off and you should be proud to be a freshman at Harvard. But if you’re not, and are instead ashamed to be once again at the bottom of your school’s caste system, here is some helpful advice for masquerading as an upperclassman.

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Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

September 1, 1935:\xa0First Class of Harvard\'s Fourth Century Will Have 1050 Members

More than one-third of the members of the new freshman class have signified their intention of returning to the Tercentenary Celebration on September 16, 17, and 18. Special plans for the Class of 1940 are being made and complete living accommodations will be supplied in the Harvard Yard.

September 1, 1939: Would Change "Harvard" To "George Washington Square"

Harvard Square, the traditional name for the district around the University, may be "George Washington" Square if a plan of Cambridge Councilman Michael A. (Mickey the Dude) Sullivan goes through.

Sullivan, a local character who represents the Harvard Square region in the City Council, patriotically resents his ward\'s being named after John Harvard, who, he says, never set foot in this city.

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It’d be possible to spend countless hours talking about why Denton’s music scene is exceptional—the openness to amateurs, the DIY attitude, the high talent density of the town’s population. But the best way to understand what makes Denton special is to just spend a Saturday night there. So that’s what I did.

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Maybe “method-writing” would be the best word for what I learned in London during the next stage of my writing project. I chose to be in London for the audience experience—of theatre, of the London underground mill, of the Olympic crowds—but I found that in fact London taught me to act. I thought that writing in the city and training to be a marionettist for the Little Angel Puppet Theatre in North London would give me practical tricks, crafts, and theories that I could apply to my dramatic writing. As it turned out, that too was yet another experience in acting.

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With Tropical Storm Isaac gaining strength in the gulf and Republicans digging in to ride out the storm ahead of their quadrennial national convention in Tampa, Fla., the delegation from Harvard\'s Institute of Politics took to national airwaves Sunday with its first event of the convention season.

The IOP kicked off its convention program with Politics & The Media: Bridging The Divide In The 2012 Election, a forum co-hosted with Bloomberg News and the University of Southern California on Sunday afternoon. The panel discussion, which featured New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson \'76, Romney strategist Russ Schriefer, and IOP Director Trey M. Grayson \'94, among others, can be viewed on C-SPAN or on the IOP website.

Weather permitting, the IOP will host a cocktail reception for current and former Harvard affiliates attending the convention on Monday. On Tuesday, Grayson will moderate a lunch discussion titled \'The Millennial Impact on the 2012 Election.\'

Check back with The Crimson for more coverage of Harvard\'s presence at the Republican National Convention in Tampa and at next week\'s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.