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Faculty, administrators and other promulgators of normalcy, all question the breadth of vision of the Buttfucks and their sympathizers. Sausalito just does not have that large a population of ex-Yalies. To normalists, the depravity theory is a symptom of youthful short-sightedness: things are not really so painful as...
It's curious how badly Harvard comes off in The Pedagogues, since like most books about Harvard it appears to set out to be adulatory and in fact to use Harvard as an attractive gimmick to make people read what would be an otherwise dull book. Pier is constantly going...
Among the best bets of all are tomatoes, which can be raised on window ledges, rooftops, even fire escapes and can keep the family in preserves and frozen pasta sauce all winter. A 15-ft. row of tomato plants can produce up to 100 Ibs. per season at a saving...
Throughout the long rows small, diligent heads were bent over the copybooks on the desks, and over the sounds of busy, scratching pens only a clock ticked...In the back, however, in the row closest to the windows, set a pale, this youth whose dark, brooding eyes turned not to...
"When I went to college my resolution to become a diligent scholar was undermined by the discovery that four racetracks lay within easy commuting distance of Harvard Square. I managed to dabble at both academic and equine pursuits for the better part of four years, until an irreconcilable conflict arose...