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What I ask is that we keep our eyes open. As a generation we don’t have a good sense of where we’re going or what we are supposed to be doing. That’s all right, for now. But the way forward will...

Author: By Gabriel J Daly | Title: Not All Who Wander Are Lost | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

A fear of becoming a “Lost Generation” may not be unreasonable.  But we are not lost, not exactly. We simply don’t know where we’re going yet. And that’s just fine. We’d...

Author: By Gabriel J Daly | Title: Not All Who Wander Are Lost | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

The particular rules of the game as played in such a venue yielded countless surprises: Students found out who had gotten management-consulting interviews, for instance, on a sheet posted on the college’s cluttered daily announcement board rather than via e-mail. Exam scores, too, were publicly...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Entering such a setting as an outside observer provides a new perspective on the apparent ridiculousness of some status-determining customs in a closed system. Exam questions at St. Stephen’s, for instance, came from a short list approved 20 years ago by the central University of Delhi...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

In many ways, this pseudo-amputee circus has come to be a symbol for everything I see as awful (and admirable) about Harvard. No matter what time of day or setting, Harvard encourages a culture where its students must have the proverbial exam booklet in their hands at all times...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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