Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Engendering a distinct character in each house, however, was an important goal of the house system's creators. The houses were modelled after the Cambridge and Oxford colleges...
...system, should be the intellectual, social and cultural centers of College life. If they become mere microcosms of the College community as a whole, as some administrators seem to think they should, there is a slight chance that they will remain so. What they won't be, however, are distinct communities...
...BECAUSE the houses succeeded in remaining distinct communities under ordered choice that College administrators proposed the complete randomization of house assignments...
...pleasures of reading Lemann lie in her sure characterization and limpid style. If she has heard of Freud, she keeps it to herself. Her people, whether brisk and dignified or drunk and disorderly, are presented as distinct personalities whose actions, however odd, are inevitable and to be accepted. Little Al, age three, is impossibly wise. Margaret, from Memphis, is more than disorderly and is locked up regularly. But she is also "a glamour girl and old-style Southern belle." When the vignettes threaten to stretch credibility, Lemann unerringly interweaves a little writing just for its own sake, perhaps a nature...
...minorities and its portrayal of the Foundation {"Crimson Misrepresented the Harvard Foundation"). I read Counter's letter and agree with some, but not all of his criticisms. Specifically, I did agree with most of the criticisms about The Crimson, but not of the comments made linking The Crimson with distinct groups on campus, namely Hillel...