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...first thing I received from Harvard following my decision to attend was a number. After the cookies and glossy brochures of the collegiate wooing process, the transition to being just an undifferentiated entry in the university’s master database seemed rather abrupt...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...university. My host institution, St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, is known as one of India’s most rigorous and prestigious non-technical schools. Seats not reserved for lower castes or other minorities often go to representatives of the North Indian urban elite who master the competitive entrance examination process...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...Georgi is the undergraduate research advisor for life sciences at Harvard University and co-master of Leverett House...

Author: By Ann B. Georgi | Title: Undergraduate Research in the Sciences at Harvard | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the 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...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

John L. Ezekowitz ’13, who won the event with a score of 490 points, turns out to be the Scrabble master.  He won the first National School Scrabble Competition in 2003 and then placed #24 at the 2004 National Scrabble Championship...

Author: By Agnes K. Sibilski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Completes Scrabble Contest | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

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