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What of a college-wide initiative for lower grades? If you thought financial aid, large classes and shoddy advising were driving pre-frosh away, wait 'til Harvard is known as the cruelest place in the Ivy League. And besides, with the pressures students place on graders to give high marks and the grading expectations inculcated in high schools everywhere, such an initiative would be doomed to failure...
Sometimes even knowledge is useless. People in Texas know what to do in case of a tornado. Texans have in the past four decades endured more tornadoes and lost more lives and property to the storms than any other state. And May is the cruelest month for tornadoes. Of all the twisters recorded in the past 44 years, more than 21% hit in May. People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room...
Though some great poets have written otherwise, March is the cruelest month. With each passing day, the promise of warmer temperatures is snuffed out by the biting winds that nip at our faces. Even as trees and flowers seem ready to bloom, snow and ice stubbornly linger on the ground...
...what follows after the adrenaline surge of the NCAA Tournament? April, "the cruelest month" according to Eliot's The Wasteland, is cruel in that it is a time of transition; the winter months have finally passed, but the warmth of summer has yet to arrive. In terms of sport, the two premier teams at Harvard--women's basketball and men's hockey--have concluded their respective seasons, and the spring sports are in their infancy...
...policy of practicing what I believe the literary critics call seasonal coordination. I can imagine A Visit from St. Nicholas given away in December. The Canterbury Tales might be handed out in April--unless April has been the cruelest month that year, in which case motorists would be left to sit in their station wagons staring blankly at The Waste Land...