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...lost beloved and a figure walking in various long costumes were displayed. After the show, audience members praised the performance. “The acting, the directing, and the music created this wonderful ensemble effect,” said Daniel Aaron, an emeritus professor of English. Jim Senti, a first-year student in the theater graduate program at the American Repertory Theatre, said that he had performed these three plays at Butler University in Indianapolis. “It was very interesting to see it in a different way. It’s always interesting to see them perform...
...location for last night’s pep rally, but did not dampen the spirits of the students who turned out in droves to profess their love for Harvard and their disdain for a certain safety school in New Haven. Organized by the College Events Board and the First-Year Social Committee, the Harvard-Yale pep rally was originally scheduled to take place in front of the John Harvard statue, but was moved to the Queen’s Head Pub as a result of the wet weather. Though scheduled to begin...
...diving portion of the meet, the rookies dominated. The day’s first event, the three-meter competition, yielded a first-place finish from freshman Anne Taylor, who earned 243.9 points for her dives. Later in the day, freshman Jennifer Reese took the one-meter event with a score of 243.40. Marissa Ash, also a freshman, finished second in each of the two diving events. The rookies also came through for the Crimson in the meet’s swimming events. First-year swimmers Katherine Mills and Christine Kaufmann each won two races during the meet. Mills took first...
Should freshmen be told that they are racist as soon as they arrive on campus? This may seem like a ridiculous question, but one that must be asked after the University of Delaware announced last Friday that it would suspend its diversity training program for first-year students. Since its inception in August, the program has drawn heat at the university and nationally because of its controversial content. Many first-year students at Delaware expressed intense discomfort with the program on account of its divisive mechanisms. Students were forced to publicly state stereotypes they held and their views on divisive...
...structures in the right and left sides of the brain falls far short of explaining how it's acquired. What gets closer are the observations that 50% of people born blind or blind from a young age have absolute pitch, and that it's four times more common among first-year music students in Beijing than those in New York - a reflection of the fact that the Chinese are more attuned to pitch, having had to master the precise tones used in spoken Mandarin...