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...have gained as a Harvard student, I now feel that there is some basis for the stereotypes which my co-workers had succumbed to. Of course, most Harvard students do not fit this image of individual arrogance. The basis of this outside stereotype comes mostly from a sort of communal arrogance. It is in our general discourse--in the newspaper articles, in the jokes told on stage and in conversations with friends. The name that hangs over our heads seems to allow normally modest individuals to become shamelessly conceited...
...been a well-attended and communal part of the house," Eliot House Master Stephen A. Mitchell said of his house common Hanukkah celebration. According to Jurij Striedter and Paul A. Hanson, the masters of Cabot and Winthrop Houses, respectively, said their houses also have traditionally held similar celebrations...
...topic. This weekend's musings are almost certain to be calm, though perhaps a little uncomfortable under the surface. Maybe we're more civil now--or more multi-culturally curious. Or maybe we're just more spiritually apathetic. One of the easiest ways to make the intellectual and communal commitments to each other that being here together entails seems to be to simply factor out religion...
This logic is unpersuasive. After all, what is the purpose of a memorial? What is it that elevates a memory, even a communal memory, to something more? Does simply going to war earn soldiers a monument at this university? Is a memorial merely an empirical marker, and the list of names displayed on it simply a ledger, informing posterity of those who died in which war? Or do we mean something more substantial when we build a memorial? Indeed...
Perera says he is comfortable with the pressure. "We have 40 people on staff jumping up and down about the show," he said. "It is a real communal atmosphere...