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...claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities of the British middle classes of the time. "The vistas of polished furniture," he writes, "turned a family home into a deserted museum, with a few partly colonised rooms where people slept alone, read and bathed alone, and hung their...
Although universities raised more this year than last year, the participation of alumni nationwide dipped slightly from 11.9 percent in 2006 to 11.7 percent this year. The survey authors attributed this to an increase in the sizes of recent alumni classes and the lack of a comparable increase in the number of donors for recent classes...
Having suffered in the first half of the season from the lack of a single go-to scorer, the Crimson now seems to produce a different one every night, powered by multi-goal performances from co-captain Mike Taylor, senior Jon Pelle, and sophomore Doug Rogers. No Harvard player has scored more than 10 goals on the season, but four players have scored at least eight...
...that like Switzerland?’”This reaction often amuses Dlamini—but he can’t share the inside joke: he has no compatriots at Harvard. Harvard has a reputation for being one of the most diverse universities in the country. Despite the lack of regional quotas, some places have a higher representation within the college than others. “It varies from year to year, but Boston Latin [School] for the past three years has led the way,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
...said Kelley D. Coleman, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association.Members of the Boston-based Project: Think Different bore colorfully-decorated signs with slogans like “FCC, where is the public in your public interest?” and stood outside the building protesting the lack of accessibility of the FCC’s hearings.But even the event’s protesters agreed that the discussion going on inside the building was significant.“I think net neutrality is a no-brainer,” said Cara Lisa Powers, one of the protestors...