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...perceived as the insulation of my quiet home town—nestled amid the rolling hills of Tennessee—I leapt at the opportunity to attend college in Cambridge, a real center of civilization. Upon arrival, though, I quickly realized that the city that, to a large extent, had drawn me to Harvard was not the glorious hub of humanity that I had envisioned. Instead, I found it to be a place marred by the most disconcerting of sounds, sights, and activities. I found that Harvard’s urban setting is not an asset...
...After a year of negotiations, Harvard scrapped the plan in 2003.In an interview, Knafel said he was saddened by the delays because they meant lost time during which students and faculty could not communicate with their counterparts in the social sciences.“The extended time, to some extent, is deplorable,” Knafel said. “What we had today, we could have had four years earlier.”But the long discussion process ultimately produced a center that is “a blending between the University and the community,” said...
...whole year without speaking to him, I do not know. I do know that over the course of the semester, I grew more and more attached to that bird—or at least more intimately aware of its mood swings and squawking schedules. I realized the extent to which my life was inextricably tied to the two rooms through the fire doors in my Kirkland bedroom...
...philosophy Ph.D. candidate—and expunged one purportedly gay alum’s name from University records. One of the expelled students committed suicide. Another killed himself 10 years later.Wright has contributed mightily to our knowledge of this dark episode in Harvard history. And, to some extent, he warns us before his forays into fiction. In an author’s note, Wright forthrightly discloses that “with the dialogue in chapters 3 and 7, some liberties have been taken.” He continues, reassuringly, that “in all important aspects, however, the information...
...first-year law students who say they want to fight for justice and work for anything but a corporate firm. (Close to 80 percent at many of the top schools end up doing just the opposite.) But no matter what the case, we must all confront to what extent we are taking a cowardly route through life simply because of its comfort and its seeming security against life’s uncertainties. To some degree we all take such routes, but some of us, weakly, never look in the mirror to see. Perhaps some of us do have good hearts...