Word: bitters
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...only serve as a reminder of the shortcomings of the education here. So often in my four years at Harvard, I’ve walked through the Yard, absorbing the crisp sights and sounds of this academic playground with more than my fair share of cynicism and disdain. Bitter, acerbic, jaded, I would sweep my eyes from brick to branch disappointed and disaffected with certain elements of my education. “This is the best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational...
...Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from a 10,000 foot precipice. The man, delusional from lack of oxygen, was pulling off his protective clothing. He was wearing no oxygen mask, no gloves, and no hat. “I bet you’re a bit surprised...
...lucky enough to live with wonderful roommates during my freshman year. They got to know me, never judged me, and became my salvation as I struggled with my science Core courses and endured the skin-piercing winds that turned my walks to Annenberg into Alaskan expeditions. But these bitter elements soon melted into the month of March, bringing with it an entirely new challenge: blocking. I wound up in Currier, while my roommates—some of the closest friends I had ever had—were assigned to Dunster, the veritable opposite pole of the Harvard world. Oh, Harvard...
...poll. That ranking only fueled the high expectations, as Harvard was thought to be facing perhaps its best opportunity to unseat powerhouses Penn and Princeton and claim the school’s first Ivy title and first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1946. Those dreams, however, faded into bitter memory with an eight-game league losing streak late in the season that transformed Harvard from title challengers into a team struggling to avoid the Ivy basement. After a pair of emotionally jarring last-minute defeats, Harvard fell into a tailspin, losing its shot at history along with the chance...
...Ells says. The lack of real danger made the hearings seem less threatening.“It wasn’t like undergraduates went around fearful,” Halberstam says. “We didn’t think Harvard would crumble.”A BITTER WINTERAfter he was indicted for contempt of the Senate, Kamin took refuge in Canadian academia for 14 years. By 1968, the Red Scare had cooled down, and Princeton University hired him as chair of its psychology department.But even after Harvard’s book was closed on the McCarthy era, the fallout...