Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This dream, of a friendly community of Harvard student poets, probably deserves a harsher portrait than it's going to get here-but who can be cruel to an image fleeing if not already fled, disarmingly optimistic and conceived in such good faith...
...seemed so ambitions and exhilarating at first. Soon, however, this certain in group of Harvard student poets found itself also sharing vocabulary, mannerisms and a whole poetic sensibility. For awhile we all wrote poems about our depressions and called it "the drifting, fading and languishing school." Then we wrote liberal poems about our childhoods and families (discreetly calling it nothing but knowing in our hearts that it was "the Life Studies school.") An occasional tic of style would distinguish one of us from the others-and the style was good, don't get me wrong, competent and finished...
...enough together to print the Crimson every day. Often even the editors can't figure out how the morrow's paper will be completed, but for better or worse, we always make it. The Crimson puts together more people with radically different life styles than any other group at Harvard. The newsroom sometimes resembles a cross between a Soc Rel 120 section and an encounter group-only it's much more fun, and occasionally just as illuminating...
Competing for the Crimson is certainly rather tricky business. There's no guarantee that you'll make it. We're looking for students who can demonstrate competence in some field, however narrow. But remember that it's not as difficult as getting into Harvard or Radcliffe. Few people who stick out the entire competition for any of the four boards get cut in the end. Persistence, initiative, and some work at developing the skills you obviously possess will get you elected...
...question of whether or not to compete really boils down to what you want out of Harvard. If you want to talk to people, if you really have things to say, if you want to meet as many different kinds of people as possible-not only other students, but also professors, politicians, and building-burning radicals, then considering coming out for the Crimson. If you want to see how honestly creative...