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...imagine that Harvard is—or was, for us graduates—our time for intellectual reflection. Out of that undertaking comes a lurking sensation that has taken hold of me and many on the precipice of our exeunt from the academy: that the placid narrow-mindedness dreamt up at Harvard will not survive the turbulent outside world. Today, we should be anxious, but exhilarated, by the onset of a reality beyond the collegiate kind...
...kind of season the Crimson had dreamt about for a decade...
...named after Hermione's abandoned daughter from The Winter's Tale, Perdita can't reconcile the vast Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways of bush tucker-all that...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I once dreamt about being photographed in a watermelon helmet...
Molly Donohue, 18, thought she had dreamt the scream. It was just after 7 a.m. She had been sleeping through her alarm since 6:50 a.m. She rolled over in bed, got up, and put on a pair of jeans and shoes. Then, as she was standing in the middle of her room, she heard the scream again. It was a female voice. Very close. Maybe next door. "It was a scream, " she says, "of absolute terror. " Then, two loud thuds, like boards clapping together. Another scream. Two more thuds...