Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winning the cup would be possible every two years. That's long enough build up hype and distinguish the event from other yearly traditions, but short enough so each class has two shots to bring (or keep) the Cup home...
Under the current system, parents submit their top three choices of programs--e.g., traditional programs, bilingual programs, arts-focused programs--for their children. Children are given priority in the two schools nearest their home, each of which may house more than one program...
...weeks ago I was at home reading the September issue of Harvard Magazine. It was morning, I could see my peaceful corner of the Hudson Highlands out the window and I could hear birds chirping and the occasional car go by--I was clearly far from sophisticated Cambridge. I was struck by two quotes about ROTC in Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from...
Normally I would ignore such talk, chalk it up to harmless Harvard egotism, and be thankful that these gentlemen support ROTC in their own way. But the unaffected atmosphere of home brought their arrogance into focus. Seton implies that Harvard students can do a better job with the military than those academy boys and those God-forsaken southerners. Huntington believes the My Lai massacre in Vietnam could have been avoided had a Harvard man been in command--that judgment and values are by-products of elite conditioning in academic Utopia...
...Harvard I sometimes forget about sacrifice, American idealism, true freedom. The self-important attitude of the place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June...