Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is a 237-page collection of odd quotes, bizarre statistics, dull anecdotes, and drivel. The author strikes a particularly banal chord when he tries to add some organization to his endless list of alums. At one point, he tries to explain the difference between the proto-Harvard man--one whose ancestors also attended the school--and the neo-Harvard man. From there, he somehow gets around to talking about the fact that Harvard prodcued such diverse individuals as Daniel Ellsberg and McGeorge Bundy (Lopez naturally doesn't tell you that Bundy never received a degree from Harvard...
...Ellsberg-Bundy incident presents a classic distinction between the proto- and neo-Harvard man. And one can also draw a distinction between what we call 'tandem grads' (those who got a degree from Harvard College and also from one of the University's graduate schools) and 'solo grads,' who get only one degree from either the college or one of the graduate schools. Obviously, a 'tandem grad' would seem to be at the top of the totem pole, particularly if he is also a proto-Harvard man...
LOPEZ is pathologically obsessed with Harvard. He tells stories about his uncanny ability to pick Harvard men out in a crowd. Like the time he got on an elevator in Iran next to a man in a yellow button-down shirt and gray suit who was talking about Cambridge. Lopez says he knew immediately that the man was from Harvard. "I think that any Harvard man that doesn't admit he's kind of proud to be a Harvard is kidding himself," he says. Lopez, who proudly proclaims himself the first Mexican-American graduate of the Law School...
...rejected again and again, and I finally took refuge in libraries, trying to study my way out of my depression and loneliness. In this morass, I clung to the one human and intellectual contact of that first semester: a freshman seminar on China taught by a man who honestly cared not only about our intellectual development, but also about our personal adjustments to Harvard...
...weekly problem sets are really no problem--they are basically a rehash of Fisher's lectures. Grading is relatively easy; students receive four out of a possible six points on each problem set for just following instructions. And although head section man Bruce Patton urges students to hand in nine of the assignments, few complete more than the required number...