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...like, and the jazz nerds of the world united. None of us planned on making jazz our lives, but we expected it to be a big part of our college experience. Five us formed a group, self-consciously dubbed a “Collective” because, hey, we knew all about that pretension. We probably couldn’t have found gigs in the real world, but luckily, there are a thousand Harvard organizations that need light jazz for cocktail parties, holiday functions, and formals of various stripes—and they prefer undergrads. We, of course, preferred audiences...
...while Harvard is an institution that wheels and deals in money and power, it is still in its heart an institution of knowledge. Knowledge that passed in whispers and parchment from generation to generation—incomplete only where it was neglected long enough for everyone who knew it to die off. The goal of a liberal arts education isn’t to get a sweet job from e-recruiting, but rather to teach each generation to be a bridge that passes the insights of humanity onto the next...
...requirements for two years. Brown took only one introductory music course but never learned to read standard notation music, and eventually concentrated in History and Literature.Brown eventually wrote her senior thesis on the history of American bluegrass. Robert W. Jones ’84, who knew her as an undergraduate, said as part of her senior thesis research, Brown traveled to Washington D.C. to interview one of the founding fathers of bluegrass, Bill Monroe.“She discovered the historical context for her own work,” Jones said. “She stood in the community...
...former teammates who knew Falcone when he was an 18 year-old center on Harvard’s Varsity Hockey team, he was a wide-eyed teenager from small-town Minnesota, easily dazzled by Boston’s big city lights...
...could tell everything was kicked up a notch,” Visone recalled. “He had on $800 shoes instead of $300 shoes...You could tell that he knew he was going to make a lot of money. He had a confidence...