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...English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher did just that last month: in a competition inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s famous short story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” students in his class, “English 178x: The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present” were allowed exactly six words to write a story—plot, characters, conclusion, and all. The competition, proposed by a student in the class, mimicked a similar online contest held by Wired magazine this fall. According to Joshua D. Rothman, a TF for Fisher?...
...don’t know,” I told my tutor. “I like riots, especially ones involving sledgehammers. Also, um, Thomas Wolfe. I don’t mind Dreiser. Dickens. Victorians. The Romantics...
...Despite my enthusiasm for the concept of thesis-writing (and the concept of six months of academically-sanctioned self-involvement is very appealing), the process of choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense...
...year, we are greeted by a list the Freshman Dean’s Office has left of all the people who have lived in our room. (Actually, this was the source of my earliest disappointment at Harvard: reading my list I thought, briefly, that Theodore Dreiser—Theodore Dreiser!—had lived in my room; upon closer reading I realized the Weld resident was Theodore Dreier—without the S. I ought to have known, of course, that the real Theodore Dreiser was no product of Expos.) At Harvard, tradition is the explanation for much...
...Harvard took place at The Crimson. Nowhere else at school have I learned to argue, write, develop friendships, contend with egos and work along with others toward a specific goal. I am convinced these skills will come in more handy than the ability to critique Machiavelli or analyze Dreiser, as I am convinced that this is a large part of what I will remember from my time here. For others, their real education and growth will have taken place wherever they spent their time—dribbling down a soccer field, pipetting in a biology lab or strumming a guitar?...