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...plot’s origins date back 40 years to when a group from MIT??s Delta Kappa Epsilon (Dekes) fraternity planted explosive cords, developed for use by demolition experts in WWII, in hopes of blasting the school’s initials into the sod before the Harvard-Yale game that year. The grounds crew discovered the explosives and school officials expelled the students involved soon after...
Undeterred, the Dekes tried again in 1978, this time developing a device that would spray-paint “MIT?? in the field. Once again luck was not in their favor as a group of Brown students burnt a “B” onto the Harvard Stadium turf with lye a few weeks before the planned prank...
...Steven Pinker were redesigning Harvard’s core curriculum, all undergraduates would have to read three philosophers—Descartes, Locke, Rousseau—and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT??s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly...
After finishing first out of 13 teams—including rival MIT??at the 2002 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest’s Northeastern regional competition, the club’s reward is a March trip to the ACM’s World Finals in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Crimson succeeded throughout the day on Sunday despite the boats raced—MIT??s technical dinghies...