Word: englandisms
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...arduous journey from farm to plate.The average vegetable travels 3,000 miles to your dining hall, spending up to a year locked in near-freezing storage chambers. By contrast, the diced squash served in the dining hall last Friday was raised on a small New England farm less than 250 miles from campus.As households nationwide increasingly turn to local farms for their produce, Harvard undergraduates are lobbying for more culinary choice. But Harvard still lags behind some of its peers in serving up locally grown food. Jessica S. Zdeb ’04, coordinator of the Food Literacy Project...
Posing in front of a wall in Memorial Church, John H. Updike ’54 looks like the archetypal embodiment of New England aristocracy. One of America’s most prolific writers, Updike also togs up rather nicely. But is he all that different than so many other men posing on the covers of their books? The dust jacket blurb is surprisingly humble until it reaches the end: “Reading ‘Due Considerations’ is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports, with a witty, sensitive and articulate guide aboard?...
Instant-runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...
...graduates—often from Oxbridge—found themselves with the means to travel more cheaply and safely than before. Somewhat averse to joining the London set, banking and lawyering their way through the gilded age (sound familiar?), and terrified of being domesticated by modern life, they left England to become romantic heroes in their own right. Along the way they mutated into state spies, aviators, and colonial rebels...
...tired of the country...I do feel it is a dying civilization—decadent, but in such a damned dull way—going stuffy and comatose instead of collapsing beautifully like France.” Similarly, returning from India in 1922, E.M. Forster described post-war England with an oriental flourish—as “a person who has folded her hands and stands waiting...