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...want to thank Peter A. Hahn ("An Important Investment," Feb. 17) for bringing to light a well-kept secret: Among the career options open to Harvard graduates, one of the most challenging and rewarding is public school teaching. It is high time that this word make it into the din that descends upon the campus each recruiting season. Hahn is absolutely correct--no profession is more vital to the health of a society than teaching, yet the complacent response he gets in announcing his career plans accurately portrays the pathetic short-sightedness of a society that takes quality education...
...difference between medical school and academic probation, streaking is the ultimate affirmation of individual power. Against our fears of failure and the constraints of an institution to which we have traded our money and our well-being, we streakers assert our fleshy, warm-blooded freedom. From the roaring din and flapping flesh of the midnight hour, we conjure forth the revolutionary spirit, to remind ourselves that it still exists behind the redbrick walls of the ivory tower. Plus, everyone's naked, and that's big bonus...
...When I came here twenty years ago there were two [a capella] groups and now there are about twelve," says Jameson C. Marvin, director of choral activities. "The growth started with the Din and Tonics, but it was around eight years ago when other groups really began to develop...
...heard the unrestrained roar of all first-years in conversation morning, noon and night. He could rejoice with the triumphant undergrad whose well-flung butter pat hit his relatively inexpensive ceiling. As the decades went by, and the voices of women and minority students began to contribute to the din, I like to think the old boy was grinning under that mustache...
...above the din is the calm, steady voice of Trent Lott, urging Clinton to "have the strength of his convictions to submit this treaty as soon as possible for the scrutiny of the United States Senate." Come into my parlor, said the spider...