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...study of Sanskrit began at Harvard in 1872 when it was established as an elective for Latin studies. It was folded into the Department of Indo-Iranian Languages later in the decade and assumed its current name...
...problem solving. Its reliance on specious standards of “reasonable suspicion” that seemed to entail nothing further than “looking” like an illegal immigrant remains unacceptable. More horrifying, perhaps, this bill will negatively affect the nation’s Hispanic and Latin-American communities, who will undoubtedly be the first to suffer from profiling and the last to have...
...Gina Grant, an all-star student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, was accepted to join the Harvard Class of 1999. On her application, however, she failed to mention that she had bludgeoned her abusive, alcoholic mother to death with a crystal candlestick at age 14. Though the case was sealed, letters began to flow to the Boston Globe after she was featured in an article about successful, under-resourced students. The College rescinded her offer of admission...
...self-deprecating, Quinn has more than made up for his lack of initial experience. He has choreographed 11 dances in his years at Harvard, served as the co-director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company (HRMDC) this past year, and taught dance at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School—all this among other activities, such as directing “Cabaret” his freshman year and helping to tech various productions. Although the Computer Science concentrator plans to work at Microsoft after graduation, Quinn will attend classes at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, eventually using...
...change the culture of school,” Sommer says. “When you develop critical thinking and understand it through the arts, you’re in fact changing the world simply by trying to understand it.” True to the project’s Latin American roots, the students write “literature de cordel,” understanding an existing work by writing their own version of it, and hanging it on a clothesline...