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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that simple. Since stereotyping is rampant at Harvard, people tend to deny parts of themselves that might be associated with some innocuous stereotype. For example, though I knew nothing about prep schools when I got to Harvard, I soon realized that they are the source of endless snide remarks. I met preppies who were truly embarrassed about their background. (Of course, there were those who prided themselves on where they had prepped.) In retrospect, I can only suggest facing up to where you are from and trying to understand how much of Harvard is you and how much...
With the seemingly endless, mindless expansion and dilution of professional sports, with a pro franchise in almost every city in the country, Harvard athletes now stand a much better chance than they have in past years of making it in the big time. In football, for instance, only John Dockery, who can flash a Superbowl championship ring from his days with the New York Jets, has been successful in recent years with...
Selecting courses at Harvard is a multi-faceted process: The two weeks between registering and turning in your study card with your semester's courses is a hectic period of hopes and frustrations, of the vision of new horizons and the disappointment of dead ends. Endless perusals of the course catalogue, anonymous tips and countertips, consultations of the Confi Guide, dranw-out late night discussions, all contribute to both the sense of chaos and urgency that characterize the start of a new term...
There is one aspect of choosing courses, however, that stands out from the rest in its simultaneous inducement of dreams and deflation of hopes. From the week preceding registration until the day study cards are due, the third floor of the Coop, where course books are neatly stacked on endless rows of shelves, is mobbed with armies of frantic students shoving, chattering, and groaning as they crane their necks and screw their eyes for a glimpse of the books required for various courses...
...quickly extinguished by the thought of long sleepless nights typing 20-page papers on such topics as the role of date-growing in the fall of Nebuchadnezzar the Second. Outside in the Square, there is a bit of a September chill in the air, but the vivid prospect of endless reading lists and embattled nights in the library is such as to even preclude rhapsodizing on the joys of the New England autum. The stentorian monotone of a spectacles professor rings in your ears, and to escape its ghastly sound you head for the nearest refuge, a bar like Charlie...