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...mascot because our teams are idiotically named after a color. We’re at a serious deficit at these games already. So even though I’m a whining champ, even though there are ants infesting my room in a school richer than most countries, even though Eliot dinner runs out around 6:15, even though I think the Core Office loves it when I hate my classes, I am going to get over myself and relive my pre-frosh excitement. Go Harvard, damn...
...scientific writing and the importance of his theory of evolution to Victorian writers. English Professor Leah Price ’91, who invited Beer to campus, added that Beer’s work has shown that Darwin was an important influence on Victorian novelists like George Eliot. English graduate students in attendance were well-versed in Beer’s seminal work, “Darwin’s Plots,” which will soon be republished in its third edition. “Ever since ‘Darwin’s Plots,’ everyone writes...
...turn of the 20th century, the landmarks that now define Harvard were still a distant reality. Where the Harvard Kennedy School is now, a railroad yard stood. The land that would later host Eliot and Winthrop Houses were occupied by an unsightly mixture of power plants, coal yards, and store houses. The present-day iconic buildings, including Widener, Lamont Library, and the Science Center had yet to be built...
Have you ever read “The Wasteland,” and thought, this poem would be a lot better if T.S. Eliot had put in a crazy rabbit and a caterpillar smoking hookah...
...Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English and classics concentrator living in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...