Word: harshness
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Prefrosh, welcome to Harvard. You have been blessed with the opportunity to join our great tradition of scholarship here in Cambridge. Now please stay out of our hair until September. You don’t go to Harvard yet. I know I sound harsh, but the frustration is warranted. Just the other day, a guy from the Harvard Class of 2010 “friended” me on Facebook. I scoured his profile to find any connection we might have. Same hometown? No, he’s from someplace in New Jersey; I’m from Phoenix. Same...
...Spring Break at most college campuses signifies the beginning of the end - and that has never felt more appropriate than it does now at Duke, where two sophomores have been charged with rape, and the future of the men's lacrosse program is questionable at best. The university faced harsh criticism for not responding quickly enough to the allegations, and then for responding too quickly after lacrosse coach Mike Pressler's resignation and the cancellation of the team's season...
...senior social studies concentrators, this time comes around the second week of April. After three weeks of post-thesis bliss, we are faced with a harsh truth: In order to collect our much-awaited thesis comments, we have to turn in an “intellectual biography” that melds all of our social studies coursework into a coherent plan of study...
...their own makeup serves to underscore the feminine character of the play.Tom E. Osborne ’08 brings an added dimension of complexity to the show with his characteristically skillful lighting design. Vacillating between rich yellows that accentuate the wooden furniture and dusty earth of the set and harsh white lights that suggest the underlying tension and scrutiny of the omnipresent “neighbors,” the result is simple but effective. It suggests the schizophrenic divide between the warm atmosphere of a family at home and the harsh problems that underlie their interaction.Although the music drowns...
...this ancient and somewhat rustic method of transportation involves using one’s own legs to get from place to place. It became popular in Europe recently when, on account of increasing public concern about the environmental and health risks associated with increased pollution from automobiles, governments enacted harsh legislation to reduce the number of cars on the roads. Students interested in trying it should begin by having an idea of where they are going and pointing themselves in the appropriate direction to get there. Generally, a straight line between two points will offer the shortest distance and therefore...