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Portugal (a country) for, lets say carnival, but precisely for those student festivals. However, I suggest one change: add a paragraph explaining that latada is also an event organized today in other Portuguese university cities like Porto and Covilhã. I have nothing left to say about this. The people will decide, I hope.
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about the homecoming festival for your school, in all its unsourced and unnotable glory. The one "travel brochure" you cited doesn't mention anything about this being a nationally-known festival. I recommend that you delete this and merge a little of it into the culture segment of the college page.
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town where they're held. At Oxford, Harvard, and my own college; people come out to celebrate and welcome alumni back. They go to games, they view parades, they dance, and the have fun. Sorry, but the argument that a local town parade where you tie tin cans to the freshmen's legs is comparable to
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I never said delete the college, I said delete the party. Oh, it's over 700 years old? Well, I guess that's a free pass to make articles about every festivity and parade and diversion that takes place there. No, not really. And the argument about "my college is better than yours" hardly helps. --
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Portugal? Because our homecoming week here is quite a celebration and I'm wondering what distinguishes it from this. The fact the college is so old is
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