Word: fellowes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some unaccustomed good publicity lately. A picture of Mansfield, over the caption "Prince of the Conservatives," graces the cover of the current issue of Harvard Magazine. The New York Times is writing a profile of the outspoken professor, who over the years has been repeatedly vilified by students and fellow Faculty members for his views on everything from homosexuality to grade inflation. Cultural conservatism, it would seem, is suddenly en vogue at Harvard...
...almost as if we had been thrust back in time to when English aristocrats pioneered their way across the Atlantic, returning to the supposedly established Jamestown Colony. Expecting to find a thriving community of their fellow kinsmen, the travelers were instead confronted with an all-but-dead village, ungodly weather conditions, a scarcity of food, and a longing to return to civilized society. And for those of us who returned to campus on September 10, when the College was gracious enough to open the upperclass houses, we can empathize with the British colonists of days past...
...waded out into water that almost perfectly matched my body temperature and was remarkably clear for the Mississippi River-catching Gulf Coast. My father reminded me to pop the rod tip, making the lure look less like lifeless rubber and more like food, something a fellow beachgoer must have known as he yanked a four-foot hammerhead shark out of the water...
...attractive for his tastes. My apologies. After dedicating hours of my time to selecting members in as fair and objective a process as possible, a process in which a person's cheekbones and social status play absolutely no role, I am stunned that Oppenheim would imply that my fellow board members and I choose tour guides on the basis of "conventional standards of physical attractiveness" or affiliation with some particular social group...
...pettiness and prejudice rampant in each annual new member selection meeting. I remember being pressured to give good evaluations to the sister of one Key executive and the best friend of another. Finally, I recall the pillorying of fellow members who were talented yet somehow different and, therefore, weird...