Word: eliot
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...fire alarm and stand outside your dorm in flip flops (and hopefully a towel), no doubt you have considered fire alarms more of a prankster’s delight than a constructive use of your Sunday night. But in 2001 alone, The Crimson reported a fire in the Eliot House Grille and an unidentified naked man in a Cabot bathroom. Last year, a convicted rapist lurked the Mather hallways posing as a fire inspector, and a burst toilet pipe flooded rooms and destroyed ceilings in Cabot. So while fire alarms might just seem like an annoyance, they might be good...
...messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience ... Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive...
Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Eliot House...
This wasn’t always the case. Harvard began as a seminary, and its earliest ideal was Charles Kingsley’s “manly Christian character,” which was propagated in the form of the daily chapel and which the liberal reformist Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues...
...have to brave the recruiting rush to find a gig on Wall Street. The former Harvard president is now a part-time managing director at New York-based D. E. Shaw Group. Summers, who will take on the new position in addition to his current role as the Eliot University professor, will focus his efforts on “various strategic initiatives and high-level portfolio management activities” at the hedge fund, the firm announced yesterday. Summers, a former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, said his new role will not change his status as a Harvard faculty member...