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...stories are so weighty. Although Harvard scholars are stereotyped these days as unhappy and overly serious, the University’s history certainly debunks that myth. Schlesinger describes Commencement in the early 1700s as a drunken affair that attracted visitors from afar, including Natick Indians, “the singing dwarfs, the dancing bears,” “cripples, [and] lunatics.…” In 1818, a fight in the Commons between the freshman and sophomore class led to the throwing of “cups, saucers, and dishes,” resulting...
Interviews with undergraduates over the weekend revealed a wide range of views on the recent controversy. Yuan Zhu ’09 of Straus Hall gave FAS members a thumbs-down for their handling of the Summers affair. “They pushed him out of the campus,” Zhu said...
...been awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, praised by John Updike and Jonathan Franzen and compared (by this magazine) to Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. So it's a bit of a surprise to find that his third novel, Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday), is a rather modest affair, slender and conceptual in nature. Wouldn't this be the moment, tactically speaking, to kick out the jams with a massive, world-electrifying tome? It's also a bit of a surprise to find that it's pretty...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
Harvard’s softball team saw its second weekend of action in Miami, Fla. at the Blue and Gold Felsburg Memorial Tournament, hosted by Florida International University.Much like last weekend, it was an up-and-down affair filled with close games for the Crimson, as they finished the tournament with a 3-2 record.Florida International, the only team Harvard did not face twice, took the tournament title with a 6-5 win over Rhode Island in the final.After that game, sophomore hurler Amanda Watkins and senior third baseman and catcher Erin Halpenny were both named to the all-tournament...