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Displaying a photo of the Star Wars character Yoda, he told his students that one of the most important roles for an attorney is that of “wise counsel...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Fresh Addition | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...last day of class, one of his students came to class in a Yoda costume, answering questions in a pitch-perfect impersonation of the diminutive green Jedi Master...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Fresh Addition | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Over the last three decades, literary scholars have utterly failed literature. Our sales pitch has worn thin. To an increasing number of students, our claims that literature refines the mind, makes one a more interesting and intellectually supple person, sound pretentious, or worse, therapeutic. The Arnoldian notion that culture elevates us, makes us empathetic and sensitive, is just not true. Don’t believe me? You should hear English professors discuss each other’s work! Students want to be empowered by knowledge, not refined or made precious by it. The age of the snob has passed. There...

Author: By Matthews B. Kaiser | Title: Reading Like Your Life Depends On It | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...dust. Taming unruly syllables—bending signification to suit your needs, understanding that everything is language, matrices of metaphor, of which you are a product—is a prerequisite for survival and success in the 21st century. Which will it be: the red pill or the blue one? No biomedical engineer could manufacture these pills...

Author: By Matthews B. Kaiser | Title: Reading Like Your Life Depends On It | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...forgot that Memorial Drive had huge oak trees hanging over it,” Henning said. “We were trucking a set to Agassiz and one of the oaks knocked it right off the truck into the middle of Memorial Drive...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Drama Takes to a New Stage | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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