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Apparently unsatisfied with 141 years worth of their own tradition and two millennia of Catholic tradition, Boston College (BC) has formed a “Student Tradition Task Force” charged with devising additional useless rituals. Perhaps BC can take a page or two from Harvard, that venerable old repository of pointless and counterproductive traditions. A few suggestions...
Skimming through The Crimson’s sports section yesterday, it was impossible not to be struck by just how great a time it is to be a Harvard sports fan. Just one look at www.ivyleaguesports.com confirms this fact, as the front page of that website is currently filled with Harvard athletes’ accomplishments and accolades. How quickly things change...
...reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined." ANTONIN SCALIA, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in a 21-page memorandum declaring that he will not recuse himself from a case before the court regarding Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, despite his friendship with Cheney...
...March 15 editorial imaginatively entitled “Whining About Dining,” Stephen W. Stromberg and Jenifer L. Steinhardt spent a good half page complaining about those who spend their time complaining about how restrictive and unfair they deem Adams dining hall policies to be. Given the amount of news print I have taken up recently as Mather House secretary of war, I am in no position to comment on the use of the fourth estate for less than substantial purposes. I am, however, in a position to comment on their assertion that, “If Mather...
...worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling words upon the page in heavy, meaningful daubs. Now, just as they did back then, it's the second bunch who get to sit at the cool kids' table...