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First semester grades are in for environmental sustainability, and Harvard got an A-. To be specific, the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the University six A??s—and one C, rebuking Harvard for being secretive about the investment of its greenbacks. The establishment of green buildings, adjustments made to individual behavior, use of local and organic food by the dining services, “aggressive recycling,” and size of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative were among the achievements that earned Harvard six A??s in the College Sustainability Report Card, released last...
...Smith says. “This makes me want to request that they stop sending me e-mails of that nature, but I don’t want to lose my connection with them any more than I already have by coming out to them as a??gasp—liberal...
...hope my inference is clear. The A??s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A?...
...them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A??s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there...
...rather than ending on a sobering note of subjection to historical conditions, the epilogue closes the novel with a final incarnation of the color blue. Isabelle is at a crossroads, questioning whether to go forward, back, or remain where she is. A??blue light surrounds her, giving her solace for the briefest moment.” Blue ultimately represents the ability of Chevalier’s luminous prose to capture the beauty of the fleeting moments in her heroines’ lives...