Word: molds
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...halls for weeks afterward, shared experiences shape institutional memories of Harvard; they allow students to remember their college experience not just as a series of classes, meetings, papers, and deadlines, but as a community.The CEB, by devoting its attention to small-scale events, has bypassed a major opportunity to mold a Harvard undergraduate identity. The CEB’s failures can be at least partially explained by the group’s lack of accountability. Only eight percent of the student body voted in the CEB’s underpublicized December elections, and the CEB’s application process...
...typical “pops” orchestra tends to fit a well-known mold, playing a repertoire dominated by famous movie scores and large-scale arrangements of popular music. The Harvard Pops Orchestra, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, is anything but typical. “What makes us different than all other student and pops orchestras is that we put on a show that’s theater. We’re sort of a hybrid,” says Elizabeth S. Weinbloom ’07. Weinbloom is a cellist and script writer for the group?...
...said the assignment has been frustrating because of the volume of commentary on the class blog. “Everyone was interested in saying so much so that they’d get a good grade,” she said. Grade-grubbing aside, this assignment clearly breaks the mold of the standard Power-Point presentation. And as Satinover put it, “If you can’t talk about anything then you won’t be able to talk about anything but the weather...
Pedagogical and curricular diversity in the nation’s institutions of higher learning is inherently a good thing. The government should be celebrating those differences, not trying to force everyone into the same mold...
...lost. In children’s literature one is free to indulge in pure escapism to another world, whether it be in a wardrobe or an opium den in Bristol. The adult fixation on children’s literature is simultaneously nostalgia for the past and a desire to mold the future. And for some it’s just a good read. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...