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

August 8, 1944: Mechanical Brains Aid in Tabulations

University Hall boasts a set of a mechanical wizards that can do nearly everything but shape College policy. Since December 1943, when acceleration began and clerical work had to be stepped up, five International Business Machines have been adding, subtracting, separating, sorting, tabulating, and reproducing Harvard records, with two operators doing the work of 30 pre-war secretaries.

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The dancer’s foot hovers next to a string. The string is unplucked.

The thought occurs to me that physical proximity and tension on stage both imitates and complicates our human anxieties.

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I spent a good portion of my interview with Cameron Neal worrying about the ox head.

It was huge, mounted on the wall right above my comparatively fragile skull, and sat slightly lopsided—surely someone had missed a nail somewhere hanging up this gargantuan specimen, and soon those frightening horns would be the last thing I’d ever see.

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You probably haven’t heard of Denton, Texas. At just over 100,000 people, it usually plays third fiddle to its neighbors Dallas and Fort Worth. Still, Denton is hardly a household name.\xa0Yet, despite its relative obscurity, Denton has a music scene that would prolific even for a town five times its size.

The acts run the gamut from jazz combos, to experimental art rock, to bluegrass trios. Lots of artists associated strongly with Denton have made it big on a national stage––Norah Jones, Bowling For Soup, Midlake, Neon Indian.

Paste Magazine named it the best music scene in the world in 2008. On any given weekend night, the town square buzzes with concertgoers; from flannel-clad college students heading to Dan’s Silverleaf to buttoned-up yuppies looking for Banter.

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"Newsies" is a little-known musical based on the 1992 live-action Disney movie that was essentially ignored for 10 years as a box office failure until its stage adaption by Disney Theatrical Productions in 2011. The musical debuted on Broadway in March after a run at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.

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Shopping period is many things: complex, exhausting, exhilarating, overwhelming. But the process of looking for classes probably hasn’t been described before as "awesome, intuitive, and sexy."

That\'s about to change, if freshman roommates Ben S. Kuhn \'15 and Billy A. Janitsch \'15 have their way. They say that their new site, Harvard-Class.com, will bring course searching into modern times.

"We just wanted the school to have a better course catalog," Janitsch said. "It\'s really surprised me that such a well-endowed university doesn\'t have the capability to have a decent course catalog."', [])

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

July 30, 1943: Navy Wives Run Widener as Services Draft Experienced Peacetime Helpers

Navy wives have taken the place of drafted librarians to relieve the shortage of trained helpers which has afflicted the library at a time when Widener\'s functions are doubly important to both civilians and servicemen.

August 2, 1956: Students Still Sit in Wrong Places

The Summer School administration, proprietors of entertainment facilities in Boston and Cambridge, and Harvard semanticists all joined yesterday in a common plea to Summer School students: Keep the entries to Yard dormitories clear. In other words, don\'t sit on the steps.

Semanticists were worried about the social congregations on dormitory steps because, as one of them put it, "the function of entries is to allow people to go in and out—see Webster\'s International Dictionary, 1946 edition, page 855."

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Winthrop Park in Harvard Square took a trip to mid-nineties Manhattan on Friday, as\xa0Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi—his real name is Larry Thomas—and a My Fox38 free soup truck made a stop on the national tour.', [])

Larry Thomas,\xa0Seinfeld's\xa0(in)famous Soup Nazi, will be coming to Harvard Square on Friday, manning a food truck with a\xa0Seinfeld-based menu on a national tour.", [])

The Crimson has been doing some summer cleaning around the building and found this classic picture (on the left) from a prank in the 1982 Harvard-Yale Game.

The \'82 Game—which Harvard won, 45-7—may be best remembered for the MIT weather balloon stunt, but it\'s also notable for a particularly reckless field storming that resulted in, among other things, both goal posts being torn down.', [])

On a Tuesday night, I found myself in the Bowery neighborhood of downtown New York. An atypical night of the week to be out and about perhaps, but not, it seems, for the underground-music-loving, tight-denim-wearing set that flocked to the Bowery for a heady dose of indie and art.

Following a recommendation, some friends and I wound up at an album release listening party for the band Pop Etc (formerly known as The Morning Benders).

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There’s a lot to do in New York, and most of it costs an absurd amount of money. But I’m here to tell you that there are free venues where you can have fun and get off the beaten track at the same time. All you need is a metrocard and a sense of adventure. Here are two places that exemplify the way that art and culture in New York is rooted in its neighborhood shops and local artists.

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Ah, New York City—so much to see, so much to do, and so many places to go. How you chose to get from place to place may be just as important as where you go. In this miraculously functional city of eight million, we are proud of our various modes of public transportation. So proud, in fact, that we will judge each other and you by the transportation you choose to take.

In a city where cool is currency, and just about anything can be a statement, how will you choose to roll? Lest you get lost in the options, or want to strategize your New Yorker identity, here is a guide to navigating the transportation stereotypes of New York City.

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

July 23, 1943: Tricycles Aren\'t Bicycles? \xa0Go Tell It to a Yard Cop

Admiral Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes—full speed ahead," but it didn\'t do freshman Albert "Three Wheeling" Hamilton any good though. He couldn\'t go full speed ahead \'cause the signs in the Yard said "No Bicycling" and Yard Cops were around to make it hurt.

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Insomnia Cookies, a late-night cookie delivery service, will likely be moving into Harvard Square in the fall—at least according to a sign in a vacated plot on Mt. Auburn Street.

Denise Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, said that she had never heard of Insomnia Cookies and did not know what their licensing status was, but noted that this may be due to administrative delay.

According to the Cambridge Licensing Commission, Insomnia would not require a Common Victualer license if they strictly do take-out and delivery. The restaurant would still need various permits to operate, but Insomnia would not need to register with the CLC if they do not serve customers at tables.', [])

Check out our new postcards for this week! One correspondent goes rodent-hunting in Argentina, another makes a furry friend in Greece, and another mulls the similarities between buses and fruit in Turkey. Crimeds in Florence eat gelato and contemplate the contemplation of David, while a Parisian correspondent describes her attachment to the city. Finally, writers in Cairo and Colombia describe harsh, yet hopeful, social situations. Read up!