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...recent increase in student interest in Greek life and other social organizations has led to speculation that several of Harvard's newer social organizations might be looking to acquire the house...
...contest, upperclass students deliver memorized selections from English, Greek or Latin literature...
Awarded for the "delivery of memorized selections from English, Greek or Latin literature," it is open only to upperclass students...
Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived and wrote 2,500 years ago--around the same time as Confucius, Lao Tzu and the Buddha--is best known as the man who said you cannot put your foot into the same river twice...
Heraclitus was of the royal blood that ruled the Greek city of Ephesus, but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic disdain and hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...