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...weeks ago, the Harvard Jazz Collective, after almost four years of existence, played its last gig at the Adams House Formal. We’re close friends now, and the experience meant a lot to us, if not to the modest, probably trashed crowd in the dining hall that inexplicably preferred our take on “swing” (mostly later Miles Davis) to the DJ upstairs. For most of us, it was probably our last chance to play the working musician; we were closing our instrument cases on a decade’s worth of practice. We packed...
...Although the complaints are useful in shaming University Hall out of its more draconian antics, there are more important times when the idea of Harvard as Harvard surfaces in the mind. It’s during solitary moments when, despite the desire for humility and the claims of disillusionment, the mythology of this place overtakes one. For me, it happened one day when I was walking through the snow-covered yard and I realized that, sometime in the past three hundred years, someone whose name I learned in elementary school probably walked roughly the same path—and probably...
Alums found themselves perplexed at an invitation for lunch at Annenberg Hall...
...Fisher’s class on Aestheticism and Modernism—and reading period—have taught me the importance of a sense of playfulness. I’ve learned that there are two approaches to a T minus 24-hours sense of panic: partaking in a dining hall arms race (“Only two papers? Try three.”) and snapping at strangers, or slowing down, taking my computer to Café Algiers, and appreciating January’s new fallen snow...
...idea what Annenberg Hall was,” said Sachs...