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...Harvard, a place known for its scholarship, it is ironically all too easy to forget the academic and the intellectual. Extracurricular activities dwarf course work, and students try to outdo each other by discussing how little they studied for a midterm or how few pages of the reading they did. Over my three and a half years here, I admit that I have been guilty more often than I would like of sacrificing course work on the altar of newspaper duties or somnolence...
...easy to become enamored of coursework in senior spring, when extracurriculars have ended and the weeks stretch out as long blocks of free time. But, as easy as it is to become distracted by Harvard's myriad extracurricular offerings, the fruits of knowledge are there for the taking. It is our responsibility to seize them so that, as Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 wrote of his undergraduate years here, "each day [will be] filled with...fresh ideas and excited inspiration to read and go on learning...
Steinberg countered the common assumptions that increased funding, high technology and a wide array of extracurricular opportunities will enhance education...
Arguably, no group of individuals faces such extreme extracurricular pressures and constraints as athletes. From energy-sapping road trips to practices that last until dinner is no longer served in the dining halls, the men and women who proudly wear the crimson colors are subjected to grueling schedules which may leave some unfazed, but force others to reassess their priorities by easing their course work. Their source of information can often be their own teammates...
Working to get to the bottom of the sorority phenomenon, I'm corrected by Hughes when I characterize Delta Gamma as an extracurricular activity. She frames it instead as a kind of "support group" and argues that it "provides a social outlet that Harvard doesn't." I press her about the corrosive effects of the sorority lifestyle on the community, and she concedes that it comes with its share of problems. In a perfect world sororities wouldn't be necessary, she acknowledges, but in an environment like Harvard's, "Many 19 and 20-year-olds want something to belong...