Word: marche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study that will enhance our minds as opposed to forcing them into stagnation. But I am well aware that I will reap a much greater personal benefit from furthering my musical knowledge and advancing my understanding of a culture to which I have a tie. ZACHARY H. SMITH '00 March...
...first week of March, with departmental deadlines only weeks away, the worst question you can ask a senior is, "How's the thesis?" Typical responses include a string of expletives, a painful groan or just deadly silence. But as March 5 approaches, it is juniors, not seniors, who are becoming nauseous at the mere mention of the t-word...
...should have a pretty clearly-defined thesis topic, good reasons for studying in the country of their choice and maybe even the backing of a thesis advisor. All of which leaves juniors in a panic to choose a topic and find someone to sign onto the project, all before March 5. Some concentrations, such as government and social studies, have already met with their students to encourage swift attention to this growing concern, but other departments have yet to breathe a word of advice...
Adam Kovacevich's column, "From Doggishness to Discomfort" (Opinion, March 1) is a very narrowminded and ill-supported view of academic life at Harvard. To assume that the "scientists in Mendelssohn's course and Jews in Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes...
...March...