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...country and community. Something is lacking in this couch-potato era when tests of one’s fortitude are so rare that “reality” television shows like Survivor and Fear Factor become yardsticks of courage. The military offers the real thing. Richard Henry Dana Jr., Class of 1837, author of Two Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California...
Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply.Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson...
...Ropes & Gray, Hankins helped organizations—including Harvard and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—design employee benefit plans. He was involved in the firm’s efforts to recruit minority lawyers and also served as a member of the Boston Lawyer’s Group, an organization that promotes the hiring and retention of attorneys of color in the Boston area...
...Dean D. McCallister ’04 was “shocked. Shocked and disgusted,” to discover that the 40 minutes spent manually stimulating Dana S. Marin ’04 hurt his Mario Kart skills. “I was doing time trials in Wario [Stadium], and I was not executing power turns with any degree of skill because my fingers ached,” McCallister recalled. Said Marin, “I enjoyed the rambunctious fingering session, but it was a little distracting when Dean tried to ‘fire my red shells?...
Though Koko herself was not directly responsible for any lyrics on the nine tracks, her journals inspired the actual songwriters, a group called the Laurel Canyon Animal Company, consisting of members Skip Haynes and Dana Walden, with the help of 40 other contributors...