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...simple perks too, like the ability to have Harvard pay for DVDs we want to watch for pure pleasure by ordering them through the Harvard College Library website. And we, seniors, are given a leisurely week to hang out before we graduate (whereas other schools give their students the boot a couple of days after the completion of exam period...
...kind of unusual,” says his wife Katherine N. Clapp ’82. Her first memories of Tranfaglia include a characteristic Marine Corps haircut acquired during a summer spent in boot camp “just for an experience,” and another summer souvenir—a single sunburned side picked up during a cross-country bike trip and debuted the following fall...
...then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The verdict was grim: a drought, most likely, since no water was drunk, and a poor rice harvest to boot...
...dying. But Scherry told his mother that the Marines who died there must have been proud to do so for their country. "He looked at the Marines as being the best, and that's what he wanted to be--the best," says Marianne. "He knew it was the hardest boot camp. He knew it was the toughest training. That's what he wanted. He wanted to push himself...
What is perhaps even more regrettable than the unfair treatment that some have given the Kirshners is The Crimson’s proposition that the University ought to precipitately give masters the boot whenever they are supposedly judged by students not to be adding enough to the social life of houses...