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Indeed, the model of a research university is based on the idea that students will learn more when they learn from those who are pushing the boundaries of a field. When the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) was created in 1872, University President Charles W. Eliot argued to skeptics worried that graduate studies would dilute undergraduate education that the GSAS would actually strengthen the College. Only “if [professors] have to teach graduate students as well as undergraduates,” he argued, would they “regard their subjects as infinite, and keep...
Barney Frank (BF): I lived in Kirkland House as an undergraduate and I lived in Winthrop House [when] I was assistant senior tutor from ’64 to ’67. I’ve spoken in the past in Winthrop, but Eliot invited...
Also in the Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop on Plympton Street first opened in 1927 and quickly became a favorite of poets like E. E. Cummings, Class of 1915, and T. S. Eliot, Class of 1909. It remains one of only two not-for-profit bookstores in the country. The Globe Corner Bookstore at 90 Mt. Auburn St. specializes in travel, while Revolution Books at 1156 Mass. Ave. sells primarily Communist literature. And Schoenhof’s Foreign Books, at 76 Mt. Auburn St. #A, founded in 1856, has the largest selection of foreign language books in the country...
...animated.” Both sides recognize that the level of intensity is different when undergraduate Houses play Dudley than when they play each other. Dudley was “significantly rougher, and far more invested in the game than anybody else we had played,” said Eliot IM Rep A. Patrick Behrer ’09. One reason for the intensity may be that Dudley’s team is composed mostly of international students—about 90 percent, according to Dudley’s assistant-captain Mauricio O. Carneiro—who come from countries...
...House: Eliot. Concentration: Same as everyone else. Hometown: A warmer place. Ideal Date: 1990. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Grits. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Bop It tournament. First thing you notice about a girl: Bop It skills. Your best pick-up line: Hi I’m Will. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I want to work for you because... Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I don’t want to work for you. Favorite childhood toy: Shiner. Sexiest physical trait...