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If you were once a 10-year-old paper delivery boy from Montana who thought Teddy Roosevelt was pretty neat—my own precious contribution, I suppose, to this carnival of diversity—a Harvard College education leaves you feeling like an absurd rendering of Captain Richard Francis...
The traditional answer by some of the best-known historians would be that once you run into the industrial revolution, authorities have no patience with people not working. They felt they had to instill work discipline into the population. So, for example, by the 18th or 19th century, more and...
After receiving $200,000 from the College to plan five to six major social events for this academic year, the newly-created College Events Board (CEB) has carried out only one so far and does not plan to hold any more major events this semester. The CEB—which...
So why are we left with such wan and infrequent holidays today? The answer, simply put, is that in one historical setting after another, traditional celebrations were deliberately suppressed. The ancient Roman élite slaughtered worshippers of Dionysus with as much zeal as when, in later years, they went after...
One reason for suppression was a fear that festivities could get out of hand and even lead to revolution. This fear was not unjustified: the carnival tradition helped fire up the French revolutionary crowds as well as uprisings of slaves and colonized peoples from the Caribbean to West Africa. When...