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Anyone who has spent more than a week here knows that Harvard operates on the RHIP principle--here, as in any large organization, Rank Hath Its Privileges. One consequence of this policy is that senior faculty members are eligible to receive "studies"--Harvardspeak for small offices--in Widener and Pusey...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Bigger Isn't Better | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...love this question. In Harvardspeak, of course, I should answer "Currier." In normal collegespeak, though, I should answer "no," as I'm not in a fraternity. I think he means the latter. "No," I say. "Frats aren't very popular at Harvard...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Dropping the H-Bomb | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...those concerned with administering the program at Harvard. Whereas the Redbook Committee published a 267-page volume addressed to a national audience, the Doty Committee thinks more in terms of a fifty-page pamphlet which, though it may be of interest to other colleges, will be written largely-in Harvardspeak. And, whereas the 1945 committee prescribed changes in curriculum without reference to actual classroom conditions, the new group has commissioned empirical studies of patterns of course selection among Harvard undergraduates...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: General Education: The Program To Preserve Harvard College | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

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