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...Oregon Trail” but that you got docked serious character points.) Before Harvard, my world was blissfully free of grade grubbing—there were no grades to be grubbed. Before Harvard, interest trumped image, and there was no question that I would forsake studying for an exam to help a friend through a tough time. I wonder, sometimes, if there are many people at Harvard who would do the same.The phrase, and idea, of being a “citizen of the world,” has some pretty deep historical roots, but among the more renowned references...
...that the transformation is complete. Though I still have a soft spot for the Fordham maroon, four years of following the Crimson on the ice, court, track, field and water have made me a loyal Crimson Crazy.There’s no escaping Fordham. After completing my last final exam of college, I turned on my cell phone to find a text message from an old high school friend—he was in the middle of graduation ceremonies at Fordham. I thought of the Rose Hill campus, how green Edward’s Parade might look in front...
...eight-point victory over defending America East champion Vermont and five straight victories overall. Harvard entered the league season at 8-5, tying the school mark for most non-conference wins in Sullivan’s tenure, and easily handled travel partner Dartmouth in two straight games heading into exam period. After a draining loss in the abusive atmosphere of Yale’s John J. Lee Ampitheater, Harvard bounced back to blow out Brown on the road and dispatch Columbia in New York. The Crimson was one win over Cornell away from taking four of five games...
...mail that in over 40 years, he has only encountered two instances of plagiarism in his courses. “I remember once hearing someone say, ‘You are not a professor until you have clapped your hand on the shoulder of a cheater in the exam room,’” Mansfield writes. “By this standard, I don’t qualify as a professor.”Verba, who has been teaching at the University for over thirty years, says that he does not remember any instances of cheating...
...paced all the time, rather like a tiger in a cage.”When Whitman received the Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded to the highest academically ranked member of each class, her classmates were not surprised.“She wrote more in a blue book during an exam than I was able to write in four pages,” Cronin says. “She wrote so fast and was just as thoughtful.”DOUBLE JUBILEEAs a result of the interactions Whitman had been used to, she says she “veered towards guys...