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...addition to these standards, all robes of Harvard degree recipients include one unique feature included to make our gowns especially distinct: the crow??s-feet emblems sewn onto the lapels. The insignia are colored based on the Harvard faculty from which the student graduates and follow the same colors used for hood trimmings at other universities...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduation Robes, Explained | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

...Caroline Crow??s goal with 16:45 remaining ignited a 7-0 Yale run to close out the half. Yale got out of the gates quickly to start the second, as Rhodes notched two scores to put her team...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big First-Half Run Gives Bulldogs Win at Home | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...He’s known freedom and he’s known imprisonment. He’s been forced to move 9,500 miles from his birthplace in Kamiriithu, Kenya, due to a hostile Kenyan government. But even separated from the subject of “Wizard of the Crow?? by the width of a planet, a span of 22 years, and a great deal of allegory, Thiong’o stays true to Africa and to the African language, Gikuyu, in which the novel was written. Thiong’o’s latest book, written...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Wizard of the Crow, By Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Anchor) | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow??s erudite message gets a little garbled. It’s not clear, for instance, whether “Gasoline” is advocating a cut-back on emissions or a populist cut in oil prices (which would seem to have the opposite effect). In the end, it doesn?...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sheryl Crow | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...uncivilized, reducing them to a ridiculous archetype. His performance also featured a “traditional” dance that was actually exaggerated for the crowd’s benefit. When Native American ways are embellished or altered to entertain the masses, the descriptor “Jim Crow?? leaps to mind sooner than “honor...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RIP Chief Illiniwek | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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