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...copious compensation was a lightning rod for criticism from some alumni and students, including several alumni from the Class of 1969 who blasted the system as inappropriate in letters to University President Lawrence H. Summers. Harvard officials defended the system but eventually capped the managers' maximum pay in March...
...It’s definitely possible, people [could be] in unflattering situations and that could reflect poorly on their character when in reality they’re just trying to unwind after a week of copious amounts of work,” says Orlosky...
...those who want to understand the course of contemporary Europe, the primary material is almost too copious and familiar; it takes a gifted historian to shape it into something fresh and coherent without sacrificing the details. A new book, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by New York University professor and frequent commentator on European affairs Tony Judt, does just that. The tome weighs in at a doorstopping 878 pages, yet it offers a brilliant and compelling synthesis of the past 60 years - a period we think we know all too well. The history of the modern era doesn...
...field pretended to shoot down a bunch of red people running around the field. As the sun fell lower and the kegs went dry, many a Harvard gent and Radcliffe lady spilled into the Yale Bowl to support his team, just in time to see the other side spill copious tears in defeat.A tight game might have seemed unnecessary, but frankly, we were getting a bit bored. Pounding Yale again and again and again is making The Game seem like Pop Warner practice. Last year, at least the Yalies could deal with their depression by imagining they actually attended Harvard...
Already this semester, copious amounts of ink have been spilled on this page on the subject of House life at Harvard College. While many claim to have the answer to the seemingly age-old question of how best to create viable, inclusive social communities at Harvard, for the most part, the solutions that have been proposed constitute little more than treating the symptoms of House life’s deficiencies.Take dining hall restrictions, for example. The argument here goes something like this: restrict access to House dining halls to residents, and you create an incubator for House community and fraternization...