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Reports this week in The New York Daily News and The Boston Herald that a New York City suicide victim was a Harvard student were apparently incorrect...
...rehashing this standard line in their self-congratulatory editorial of Monday morning, editors Antony Blinken and Errol Louis have displayed an annoying misconception about the purpose of The Crimson. I do not mean to suggest The Crimson tends to hold incorrect, antagonistic, unrepresentative views. While The Crimson tends to reflect my own views, it need not (as so many, like our friends at the Salient, suggest) represent a cross-section of the campus. And The Crimson clearly recognizes its 'best'--Harvard, Cambridge, and academics--and covers it very well. But the editors are indulging in wishful thinking if they believe...
...argument that seniors should get priority because it is their "last chance" to take a course fails because so few courses actually remain the same from year to year. It is incorrect and unfair to assume that younger students will have an opportunity to follow an academic program identical to that of older students. A random lottery avoids this problem by giving underclassmen--who must fulfill more cumbersome Core requirements--an equal shot...
...that if one metaphor per sentence is good, several are better, even if contradictory. A rambling rumination on "an American loss of nerve" by former New York Times Critic John Leonard has, aptly, a running leitmotiv of Japanese fog. In other articles, the language is occasionally odd, opaque, even incorrect...
...assume that highly individualistic, competitive young people would band together to challenge an institution which, despite any flaws, provides a stimulating environment of intellectual exercises, athletic contests, and convenient social engagements. And it is precisely the widespread misunderstanding of what actually happened "back when students were political" that produces incorrect evaluations of today's campus scene...