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...They had Coach Kingston, a man “who appeared to have started to play in rugby when he was in the womb,” according to rugger Giles A. Birch ’85.According to Kingston, coaching a rugby team was a natural extension of his love for the game.“In summer of 1981, I was wandering down their athletic facility and bumped into a group of guys who were rugby players,” Kingston recalls. “That was the beginning of it.”Under Kingston?...
Like any other Harvard applicant, I was well rounded—or insanely overscheduled—but jazz was a core component of my identity. I was in love with its lore, its improvisatory spirit, and I diligently practiced tenor sax an hour each day. I didn’t apply to conservatories, but my college list was limited to those that boasted strong jazz programs. I listened to the stuff almost exclusively until I was 17, and my application’s personal statement was 500 words of gushed, schmaltzier-than-Kenny G prose—I think...
...turn into hobbies; that, as time progressed and possibilities were whittled away, not every bullet point on that college application was destined to become my life’s passion. I never planned on making jazz my life—I simply don’t have the love for the saxophone that turns eight hours of practice daily from a chore into a routine—but I never thought it would be relegated to the background to the extent that it has been here. No matter. As long as Harvard supports quaint old jazz, Collectives will come...
...that is remembered of any of us is the footnote written by a history concentrator who is trying to win a Hoopes Prize by digging up obscure minutiae. While we pass through and change, the college does not. The dorms will be filled with other students having their own love triangles. The UC will continue to amend its constitution. The faculty will reach a new revolutionary way to teach general education that looks like all the past programs. The senior thesis writers will escape to the same bars for the same drinks. And the Lowell House bells, though new, will...
...little non-financial support from the University, which is great in the sense that Harvard students get to take on jobs like directing and producing that at other universities would be afterthoughts for professionals. It would be easier, yes, but less enriching if Harvard worked that way. If you love it, if you’re focused and energetic and talented and tireless, then there is no better feeling than the one you get just before the lights come up on opening night. But I wasn’t any of those things, which I realized in the spring...