Word: jobses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ah, the Harvard vocabulary. In this week's plea for our money, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles noted that "nearly 70 percent [of undergraduates] have some form of aid, such as loans and jobs." We at Dartboard have gotten used to saying we are concentrators (not majors), who...
The one-in-five undergraduates with "aid packages" consisting solely of loans and jobs should be insulted by Knowles' estimation of their intelligence. This so-called aid doesn't cost Harvard one crimson cent. To paraphrase a masterfully-written University statement, Knowles is a skilled storyteller. However, much of his...
Re "Valentines and Veritas" by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (News, Feb. 13): Besides the fact that no Caucasians and hardly any men were cited in the article (implying that interracial relationships are a minority women's issue), the author failed to modify an obviously mistaken quotation.
Angela Ng contrasts "Asian men" and "American men." What's wrong with this picture? Maybe Ng was unaware that many Americans are also Asian, but Brennan-Jobs (or her editor) should have been aware that "American" does not equal "Caucasian." A better newspaper would have supplemented the quotation with a...
"I've helped people get jobs on Wall Streetthrough Bee connections," Lipson says.