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This type can be seen at many colleges but is most relevant at Harvard. After a few months in the Yard, students start unknowingly lowering their standards. Suddenly, the girl who never could get the attention of that stud hockey player in high school is hot shit, and she knows...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Avoid These Crazy Harvardians | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

In the fall of 1959, 230 hand-selected Harvard men moved into Quincy House as the original occupants of the College’s first contemporary residence. Breaking with the architectural tradition of the initial seven Houses, Quincy’s concrete, high-rise exterior and novelty imbued its initial...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Quincy Residents Establish a New House Spirit | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

How do so called "helicopter" parents fit into your conclusions? Parenting practices are a product of the culture. Just in my lifetime, the philosophy of parenting has undergone a complete reversal. I was born in 1938, and my parents didn't worry about my self-esteem: they worried that too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Parents (Still) Don't Matter | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

"It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born." --MARK TWAIN, 1868

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of The World | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

America is obsessed—with sports, with food, with television, with scandal. And, as Mark J. Penn ’76 reminds us in his new book, “Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes,” America is obsessed with itself...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Microtrends’ as Fun as Microeconomics and Half as Relevant | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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