Word: eliotisms
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...rest of us, perhaps it's enough to drop the odd smart reference to June 16, 1904 (that's Bloomsday for Joyce fans, or, dear nonreaders, the day Ulysses takes place), the evocative aroma of madeleines (nostalgia muffins to novelist Marcel Proust), or George Eliot (remember, she was a woman). Bayard argues that the real secret to knowledge, cultivation and passionate reading lies in avoiding the traditional, linear approach to books. "Books aren't so much made to be read, as they are to be lived with," he says. Hey, doesn't that remind you of something Franz Kafka once...
...throwing parties because everything was too crowded this weekend. In the Adams Art Space, the artsy crowd sipped wine out of Solo cups while checking out student-made paintings and documentaries. If you enjoy getting mysterious red liquid spilled on you from a plastic bat, the rugby party in Eliot was the place to be, where ballerinas cavorted with jocks to ’90s pop hits. It felt kind of like the party that FM was never invited to in high school. In Cabot, a strapping junior played host in a charming bathrobe, but he wasn?...
After sending an e-mail to the Eliot House open list, Parker said she saw others whom she didn’t even know publicizing Cross’ need for a donor on other lists...
...unprecedented medical leave early on in his presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served in the office longest, famously remarked on his deathbed, “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard College.” And even Larry Summers has said on more than one occasion that Harvard was not ready for his kind...
Most people would agree that Harvard cannot be run in typical top-down fashion. In a community of know-it-alls, most of whom have tenure, that kind of governance is impossible. Presidents come and go, and even those who stay a long time, like Holyoke, Eliot, and Lowell, find that in the end they are obliged to play a waiting game with a faculty that can always outlast them. Eliot’s second 20 years were nowhere near as productive as his first twenty years. Eventually, faculties develop an immunity to even the most compelling and creative...