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...week and a half before the Harvard-Yale Game, Law School alum Eliot Spitzer captured the New York governorship previously held by Eli George Pataki. The Democrat Spitzer won 69 percent of the vote in a race against a little-known Republican former state assemblyman...
Metaphor became reality last week, as a major backup in the pipes underneath Eliot House yielded flooding localized to the D, E, and F entryways, but, unfortunately, not to their bathrooms. Congestion from deep in the bowels of Eliot caused water, that made the Charles River look potable, to spring from the shower drains and fill the rooms of a few unlucky souls. The inhabitants fled to not-so-nearby Dunster House as their infected common rooms began to be decontaminated. An event such as this can only be interpreted as the will of a higher power...
...International House of Pancakes (IHOP) is set to open in the Square on Nov. 20, a month earlier than originally reported. The director of operations for the franchise, Walter Salaverria, promised “no more delays.” When IHOP first purchased the 16-18 Eliot Street space, across from The Charles Hotel, the store’s managers had planned to serve pancakes as early as June 2006. Delays in the shipment of kitchen equipment pushed back the opening date to this fall, and just last week the owner of the property, Robert Banker...
...only would the pragmatists have thought the Core unnecessary, but they would have noticed that it did not actually work, even by its own terms. When Eliot implemented his elective system, one of the arguments he made was a pragmatic one, that it was foolish to push the student “into studies for which he has no capacity and in which he feels no interest.” Were Eliot still alive today, he might have said, ditto the professors...
...obvious solution is to allow students to create their own educational plans. Yes there will be some abuse, as there was in Eliot’s day, but as Eliot put it, “I care no[t]… for the young men who have no capacity for an intellectual life.” Such people will always exist, and barring a change in the current pool of students, there will always be slack students. But even abuse is likely to be far less than the kind in Eliot’s day. For one thing...