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...take seminars, tutorials and lecture courses requiring research papers early on in your Harvard years in fields that interest you. That is, don't fill up your sophomore schedule with Cores and other random large lecture courses--when thesis time rolls around, all that cocktail-party knowledge will seem more useless than ever. Once you have a topic...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Thesis Do's and Don't's | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has long battled what he calls "Darwinian fundamentalism," dismisses the meme as a "meaningless metaphor." H. Allen Orr, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Rochester, isn't much nicer. "I think memetics is an utterly silly idea," he complains. "It's just cocktail-party science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Mind Just a Vehicle for Virulent Notions? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

What can be done to ameliorate weekend life within "the ivory tower"? Many students have come up with interesting and creative possibilities to spice up the standard, routine weekend party scene of keggers and cocktail parties...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Life of the Party | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

What can be done to ameliorate weekend life within "the ivory tower"? Many students have come up with interesting and creative possibilities to spice up the standard, routine weekend party scene of keggers and cocktail parties...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Variations on a party theme | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...consulting and marketing fields. The company makes its money through finders fees it collects for hooking up companies with employees and through online advertisers. "With online networking, you're not limited to time and place," says New York City-based co-CEO David Ronick. "It's like a giant cocktail party on the Internet." The party is only getting bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still Who You Know... | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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