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...Donahue, the collaboration also presents a chance to produce a play of “great imagination” while giving students the invaluable experience of working in a professional dramatic production...
...Indeed, great ethical question marks surround the matter of whether “Laura” ought to have been published at all. Nabokov’s last wish was that it be burnt should he die before its completion, a worst-case scenario that came to pass in 1977 when the complications of fever took him in Switzerland. The literary world at once divided in two: the “publish” camp happy to get their hands on whatever they could from the man they considered a genius, and their “perish” antagonists...
...Great. Lowell has joined the ranks of Adams, Quincy, and the other Houses that have complex rules about who can eat there and when. This means that for the next month or so, the only Houses left open to everybody at anytime except community nights are Cabot, Currier, Pforzheimer, Mather, and Dunster—the Houses too far to walk to in the first place...
...There’s a great sense of uncertainty,” Ellwood said...
However, there are certainly aspects of this new development that deserve praise. The mailings provide colleges with a novel new form of advertising, exposing students to institutions they might have otherwise ignored. Bright students might discover that great universities are not found only on the front page of U.S. News and World Report; as a result, lesser-known schools could attract more intellectually gifted students who might otherwise base college decisions on name recognition alone. Similarly, waiving the application fee attracts students who find the cost of applying to college prohibitively high, which increases the accessibility of higher education...