Word: greeks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What!” yelled one of the ten Greek men in my tour group, “Harvard students don’t fuck...
...getting a ‘B’ on my first Expos paper, I was confidently reassured by my preceptor that T. S. Eliot received the selfsame grade on his first paper, too. In fact, he received ‘D’s in Government, History and Greek, as well as a ‘C+’ in German. After Eliot’s first semester, Dean Wells sent a letter home. “Thomas is working at a lower rate than most freshmen,” he claimed...
...just keep the doctor away, according to a study released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Athens Medical School. Because midday napping is a common practice in Mediterranean culture, researchers studied more than 23,000 Greek adults for an average of six years and found that subjects who indulged in regular snoozes were 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease than those who pushed through the day without a nap. Michael Irwin, a co-author of the study and psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California...
...classicist, it pains me to see good, solid Greek letters sullied by perky girls with silly hair. Greek Week and all other “Greek” events are the nerd’s rightful domain; how did they get co-opted by pearl necklaces and keg stands, the calories from which will just be obsessively worked off in the MAC at 9 a.m. the next morning...
...used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then...