Word: kirkland
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...retelling their tales of childhood: building character.All around the river houses, stories of the success of Harvard’s “Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room...
...glad to have been contacted,” former UC Representative M. Lance Kussell ’87 said. “It’s nice to talk across generations within the Harvard community.” A symposium in Kirkland House preceded the banquet, and featured speeches by former UC executives—and former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71—about changes in the council over the years and visions for the future of the UC. The evening resulted in at least one high-profile donation, as Gross concluded...
...advisor then told me that I had a penchant for “windy philosophizing.” After that, I sort of went into a freefall. There were extreme highs and frightening lows. I started listening to Miley Cyrus, then habitually wore a leopard print nightie to the Kirkland Dining Hall. I became obsessed with HUDS’ country fried steak and started to have dreams about it. I would talk about my thesis constantly, even when people’s eyes would glaze over and they would start staring out into a nameless abyss. Now, even...
...Lewis E. Bollard ’09 is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...stipulations represent merely what they have been advertised as, leveling the playing field for graduate-student teaching fellows—and not a greater trend of student self-rule in education.Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 is a history concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears regularly...