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...Coming off its own victory over Navy last week, Harvard’s lightweight crew traveled to New Haven, Conn. this weekend in a much-anticipated showdown with Princeton and Yale on the Housatonic River amidst excellent conditions...
...Amidst shouts of “winds of change” and “sixth-inning magic” from the crowd, the Harvard softball team attempted to stage a late comeback in Game 2 of its doubleheader against Dartmouth at Soldiers Field yesterday.After sweeping the Big Green in Hanover on Saturday, the Crimson needed to win just one of yesterday’s two games to claim the Ivy League North Division championship.But while Harvard (27-16, 12-8 Ivy) managed to score two runs, its efforts were simply too little, too late, as the Big Green?...
...English professor Louis Menand—one of the architects of the Gen Ed program—said that he would love to see great books courses being taught in the new curriculum since they “would look new” amidst a Gen Ed slate heavily populated with curricular holdovers...
...Amidst public outrage over Facebook.com’s storage of user information on its server, Facebook has recently encouraged its users to vote on possible changes to the Web site’s terms of service. In a post on the company’s blog on Thursday, Facebook CEO and founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 explained that if more than 30 percent of Facebook’s 200 million active users voted on the proposals, all of Facebook’s future amendments would go through the same voting process. Users...
...what happens to complex social emotions in a modern society, where we exist amidst the flicker of Twitter tweets, Facebook updates, endless channel surfing and quick-cut news segments? A ticker headline or a personal story told through a Web feed may just evaporate too quickly to engender true compassion or admiration - and that could potentially affect the moral development of younger generations...