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...Taken together, it all makes you think of those wide-brimmed hats that English women wear to the races at Ascot. The stated purpose of the canopy is to act as a vast, three-acre sunscreen, making the plaza a more inviting place to mingle even on hot summer days. The unstated purpose is to give an otherwise highly distilled structure an extra bit of geometric gee-wizardry. Which it does...
Humanities concentrators spend much of their college career learning obscure Slavic languages, analyzing the small gestures in English literature, and acquiring a cursory knowledge of philosophy. They contemplate every abstract question but the one that’s been directed at them repeatedly by their parents: “So what are you going to do with that degree...
...There’s this view among a lot of people in the English department that OCS doesn’t have anything that’s designed for them,” English concentrator Trevor A. Groce ’10 said.Are the rumors true...
...textbooks off of Amazon and EBay to work through. Most days, he says, he puts in an hour or so on Wikipedia. On a recent October afternoon, “William III of England” is open on his computer—just to look into some English history, he says. The accumulation of knowledge is like the gathering of currency: it works to your favor to have more. In Ian’s mind, college is wasted on most students because they don’t realize just how good they have it. He’s considered...
...edited for a 1964 reprint, in which the ever-meticulous Updike literally cut and pasted revised paragraphs into the margins and tucked them into the text. The Archive also offers proof that Updike was just another Harvard student, scrawling a less well-known moniker for the greatest English playwright—“Willie the Shake”—onto a copy of “The Tempest” for Professor Henry Levin’s Shakespeare course...