Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This was not the kind of talk which experience with contemporaries back home had taught me to expect. I was at once amazed, terrified, excited, and pleased. And so began my experience of Harvard...
...often the new student thinks of these guidance services merely as the place for his academic problems: this is a misconception. The Freshman Dean's Office helps students out financially many times in helping to get home or meeting small personal emergencies. Freshmen use it for every excuse from flirting with the secretaries to getting advice on the stock market. A comment by one of the secretaries in the Office who had just helped a student is a good example of much of the Administration attitude: "Officially I'm not supposed to do it, but it means nothing...
...great-aunt's birthday in Connecticut, and, uh (That's a goddamn lie, Martin!) my mother called this morning (At nine A.M.?! Sure she did!) and told me I have to come home next weekend because
...Wing and a Prayer "), each in turn split among books " Recommended, " " Critical, " " Assumed, " " Incidental, " and " Basic. " Professor Pompadour introduced many variations upon this theme, but the most successful was his habit of withdrawing all books from Widener at the start of each term and relocating them to his home in greater Belmont...
Martin looked at the receiver in his hand as if it were a snake. What had happened? Jean had sounded unenthused, to say the least; and he had sounded like an eighth-grader! What was the matter with him? That same kind of stuff had worked so well at home; what was he doing wrong? Martin hung up the phone and crawled back to his chair...