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...design, this change would entail some discomfort for the Gold Coasters. But this new system of democracy was not a reality. To join a House, the master would interview an undergraduate to see if his attitude was an acceptable addition to the microcosm within the Harvard community. Soon the Houses gained reputations of their...
...majority who remained in the Yard, in addition to their physical discomfort, suffered the psychological stigma of being unfashionable. And when the new private dormitories [on the Gold Coast] increased the growth of elite private clubs, [President Charles] Eliot's critics accused him of erecting an aristocratic society on the ruins of the supposedly democratic community he had inherited...
Adam Kovacevich's column, "From Doggishness to Discomfort" (Opinion, March 1) is a very narrowminded and ill-supported view of academic life at Harvard. To assume that the "scientists in Mendelssohn's course and Jews in Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes...
Adam Kovacevich's column, "From Doggishness to Discomfort" (Opinion, March 1) is a very narrowminded and ill-supported view of academic life at Harvard. To assume that the "scientists in Mendelssohn's course and Jews in Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes...
...each semester between the familiar and the unfamiliar, be prepared for the regret you will feel in a few years after taking intellectual shortcuts on your way to your Harvard degree. Instead, take the long view over the short view, grit your teeth and be vigilant in seeking out discomfort. Adam R. Kovacevich '99 is a government concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...