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...peek, brief but profound, at the intimate workings of Harvard University at the heart of its generative core, University Hall. Like most of my experiences at Harvard, this one began with a rejection. Over the past few years I have acquired the habit of submitting essays to the Bowdoin Prize Essay Contest for Undergraduates. I no longer do it because I have any serious hope of winning: It has just become a habit, maybe even an addiction...
...April 6 at 4:54 p.m. when I rushed from Gnomon Copy to University Hall to submit the required evidence of my intellectual inferiority--five copies of my essay--that will eventually be used to dismiss me from consideration, I could hardly have expected what came to pass. I charged up the steps of University Hall in my characteristic race against time to meet the 5 p.m. deadline. A man and woman halted my advance...
...Photo Essay...
...EXTENDED ESSAY TOPIC: Nixon and the ‘72 election...
...glancing at Walter Kirn's "Thanks for Asking" [ESSAY, March 27], my wife was trying to give good-faith answers on the long census questionnaire. What more is needed than to stand up and say "present"? This is what we did when we started school in the 1920s. HARDY AND FRANCES HAY San Diego