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...considers herself a proud but critical Harvard alumna: "Someone once asked me, 'Didn't you enjoy it?' and I said, 'Well, yes, but being on the Crimson, it was my job to criticize it.' I think that's the most interesting place to be, perched between devotion and mild contempt...
Though I might replace "mild contempt" with "critical disapproval," the statement nevertheless captures my perspective of Harvard. From an objective standpoint, I have been very lucky here: I found a concentration in classics which was small enough to be accessible and challenging enough to be academically inspiring and an activity in The Crimson which was personally and socially fulfilling. Along the way, I have found friends and teachers whom I will leave today with great appreciation and not a little sadness. But also along the way, I learned to criticize the institution which has given me so very much...
...Harvard, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says he is not disturbed if the College's method of assigning groups of students to Houses makes them uncomfortable--he sees mild discomfort as evidence that students are learning how to live with other people...
...laughed. "The Facebook was our only bathroom reading material. I knew you were Shannon Erynne Washington of Our Lady of Mild Senility High in Toledo, photographed against a mountain background holding a trumpet...
...Shields' premises are as playful. Dying for Love presents capsule accounts of three women who have been pushed by failed romances to the ledge of suicide. All pull back in time, the third one after experiencing a mild epiphany: "She is a woman whose life is crowded with not-unpleasant errands and with the entrapment of fragrant, familiar, and sometimes enchanting items, all of which possess a reassuring, measurable weight and volume." The story concludes: "Not that this is much of a handrail to hang on to--she knows that, and so do I--but it is at least continuous...