Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That fact will affect every facet of your academic life here, from the courses you take to the grades you get to the amount you actually end up learning from it all. For starters, if you are the type who learns best in small groups--if you function most easily in the give-and-take of the classroom--you're out of luck. The bulk of Harvard education is of the mass-production, assembly-line variety. Oh, there are tutorials and House seminars and colloquia and conference courses and independent studies. But by their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness...
LOTS OF HARVARD STUDENTS write. In fact, most of them just love to gaze at their own printed words, so they write on an on. For those sybarites of the polysyllabic, these are the Harvard-Radcliffe publications...
...most about Harvard was that it wasn't knocked askew by one single problem...Harvard seems to have all the problems, but for some reason they deal with them better. I don't know whether they spend more time, or they're smarter, or whether it's the fact that they're simply Harvard...
...that the system doesn't work--in fact, it manages to govern Harvard with more stability and flexibility than many other schools' set-ups. But it certainly does not have any pretense of catering directly to student needs. The same decentralization that keeps most offices in the black, and leaves few officials with overwhelming areas of responsibility, makes it almost impossible for students--especially freshmen--to know where to go when they have complaints or questions. The absence of any full-fledged, respected student government that can both collect student opinions and send them into the right office so that...
...when he tries to add some organization to his endless list of alums. At one point, he tries to explain the difference between the proto-Harvard man--one whose ancestors also attended the school--and the neo-Harvard man. From there, he somehow gets around to talking about the fact that Harvard prodcued such diverse individuals as Daniel Ellsberg and McGeorge Bundy (Lopez naturally doesn't tell you that Bundy never received a degree from Harvard...