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...Wearing bandannas and jerseys, he would exit Thayer and look up and down the yard like he was in “the ’hood.” Now, Amutah sports simpler garb as he heads to class or Boston as part of the Mission Hill After School Program, which he helps coordinate. “Not dressing like that doesn’t mean that you still don’t rep that neighborhood,” says the social activist and blogger. “It’s just that you’re becoming...
...better or for worse, alumni giving is a somewhat selfish prospect. Yes, alumni give because they believe in Harvard’s mission and want to give back to an institution that gave them so much. Some alumni may even be so idealistic as to give more to an institution that disavows benefits to legacies in the admissions process...
...more like the Core than it has at any point during the four-year-long curricular review. The Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating “Reason and Faith,” the most novel component of their preliminary plan for general education released...
...heaviest dose of instruction with real-world relevance is the Academy's innovative senior mastery process. The two-year seminar beginning in eleventh grade is both a tutorial on searching for a job and an exercise in self-exploration. Each student fills fat white binders with biographies, personal mission statements, lists of life and career goals, and assorted essays in which they articulate and assess their own strengths, interests and ambitions. A boy who wants to be a mechanical engineer composed an essay titled "How To Be A Better Me," outlining the steps he intends to take to "become successful...
...takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking the head home as a trophy for his patroness. This is just target practice for his grand mission: to track down and kill, splendidly, the men who defiled his sister and made him into this sacred monster...