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...guests. Of the 700 attendees this year, around 450 were undergrads, according to Rebecca M. Rohr ’08, a co-chair of the event. Throughout the evening, guests munched on challah, gefilte fish, and kugel. Sheets of paper on each table listed Hebrew blessings spelled phonetically in English. Joshua A. Kipnees ’06 said that the event showed how inclusive the Jewish community at Harvard is of people of different backgrounds. “People often have a perception that Jews go off and do their own thing,” said Kipnees, a second-year...
...apply to Harvard because my parents went here. I applied because Natalie Portman went here. Maybe the Admissions department should take that into account. If I were just following the family, I’d be at Butler now.Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is a classics and English and American literature and languages concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...students want to stay home for five weeks and do nothing, that’s a great thing.” Potential offerings Harris suggested included the practical—classes on PowerPoint; the less conventional—such as metalsmithing; and the academic—introductory Japanese or English seminars. “There needs to be a wide range of things, from demanding to less demanding,” Harris said. The question of whether to allow internship recruiting during J-term was raised, with opponents calling for a vacation free from the stress of classes and competing...
...days, the Department of English and American Literature and Language may cease to exist. Not, however, because the University has decided that the teaching of English literature is no longer necessary. Instead, the department is threatened because the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on April 8 to decide whether to change its name from the cumbersome “Department of English and American Literature and Language” to the more concise “Department of English.” University Professor Helen Vendler seemed uninspired by and indifferent toward the proposed alteration, calling...
...combat in faraway lands. "This would not have been possible ten years ago," says Joachin Castan, author of the 2007 biography of the flying ace, Der Rote Baron. "It is now possible to ask the question in Germany, 'Can there be a war hero?'" (The film was shot in English and will probably be released outside of Germany sometime in the next year...