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As I recall it, the prevailing mood around the very nice fifty-dollar cookies and punch was rather breathless. Something had happened. Reminiscent of Peter on the Mount of Transfiguration, blurting out: “…it is good for us to be here…” However enhanced and distorted my personal experience may have been, it remains an objective fact that we, MIT, and Shakespeare had a huge, memorable, cultural success in the Senior House courtyard, despite all reasonable expectations.
I don’t know what ever became of “Lance.” I seem to have heard that he dropped out of MIT without graduating, but that’s as uncertain a recollection as any. It’s only now, half a century later, that it occurs to me how perfectly his achievement on our behalf fits with the classic “hacking” ethos that infused and shaped my East Campus experience: unexpected and even counterintuitive results from clever and unconventional techniques, playing fast and loose with “the rules” as required, and all executed in an atmosphere of high spirits and, sometimes, low humor. Here’s how I reported the same event in a letter to Valerie the next Sunday, April 30:
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