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...options.Even these objections don’t begin to tackle the bigger issues final clubs raise in terms of the social scene at Harvard. Yes, “social meritocracy” is a somewhat dubious description of punch, which is often arbitrary and, yes, introduces an odd incentive structure with membership as the reward for sociability, wit, and audacity. And yes, there is a clear power structure at work, with male members controlling a guest space populated by male and female guests hand-picked at the door. None of these facts are particularly pretty. Some of them seem...
...presented at the September full Faculty meeting. The booklet, which Yagan helped to edit, was finished only weeks before the Committee’s final report was released last week. “The student essays were never really timed to have an impact on deliberations, which was odd,” Menand said.Forums were held throughout the past year on Curricular Review topics, but the insights into students’ desires that many Committee members noted resulted from informal personal interactions rather than open forums.Both Yagan and fel low Student Representative and Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer...
...glorious finale for a career that began with a modest fourth place in the mare's debut appearance at a Victorian country race meet just three years ago. Rob Childs was there that day, but he remembers only her odd name - concocted from the first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session...
...children learned. Usually, he found, they saw school as a noncompetitive place where it was important to succeed collectively and then move on. Succeeding at the expense of others was seen as a form of vanity that the New Guineans call "acting extra." Says Demerath: "This is an odd thing for them...
...middle frame, neither team found much rhythm despite each netting a goal. For the Crimson, a number of breakaways did not produce any points as Quinnipiac kept breaking up two-on-one and three-on-one Harvard advantages down the ice. “We had a lot of odd-man rushes, and we didn’t bury the puck,” Stone said. “We have to learn that and we will. We were very inefficient today and the puck bounced everywhere. We made it so much harder on our selves then it needed...