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...Language is such a marker of culture and class,” she says. “My parents spoke very good Spanish, and because of that they thought it would have been a disservice to not encourage us in English...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay.Every non-mathematical field in the University has its own set of vague generalities. For instance:“Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” (Philosophy)“The whole thing boils down to government rights vs. property rights...
...such a prestigious prize is being given away to students it shows that Harvard thinks students’ research is important,” Hernandez said.Ian K.L Goh ’06, a senior whose thesis “To Make a Prairie: Bees as a Marker of Place in Greek and Latin Poetry” earned him a Hoopes, also mentioned the financial motivations—students who are awarded a Hoopes Prize receive $2500 each, and their advisers $700.“Another facet of that is that the advisers get money too,” Goh said...
Demers’ stellar performance on the erg, an individual marker for speed on the river, qualified her for the Junior National Team last summer...
...during the concert. Picking up the ball to toss it back into the crowd, the artist—who is known for improvising lyrics in live shows—noticed that the words “Eliot House Sucks” had been inscribed on the toy in permanent marker...