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...wise friend once explained to me that there are two types of people in this world: those who know Greek and barbarians. Unfortunately, for yet another year, Harvard will produce a bumper crop of the latter sort.Although the classical languages at the University today are the purview of specialists, that was not always the case.For more than a generation before 1950, Harvard offered two distinct degrees to its graduating seniors. The Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and the Bachelor of Science (S.B.) degrees were nearly identical in all of their requirements, aside from one crucial aspect: The more highly-coveted...
...keep the passing game lethal for Pizzotti and his offense. “Once they get more experience on the field, they’ll be as dangerous as any of the wide receivers we have,” Pizzotti said. So look out, Ivy League teams. The next crop of Harvard’s receiving corps has now arrived...
...League is our focus.” In last year’s season-ending meeting, the Crimson felt an all-too-familiar thorn in its side: a lack of offensive production. As junior goalkeeper Lauren Mann enters her third year as the cream of the league crop in net, the team’s struggles for goals and wins have gone hand-in-hand. The signs in the offseason and early going in 2008 all point to upward movement in the standings for Harvard. Last year’s talented freshmen and sophomores are a year older and wiser...
With a talented and wealthy crop of students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should...
...With little support from the administration and a full course load to manage, the current crop of Harvard designers face a problem that most students either abandoned in high school or are not lucky enough to have—how to balance the academic with the creative and eschew the expectation that those attending a premier educational institution should simply join a premier professional...