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...provided an existential struggle to which each man and woman could find a way to contribute. In the post-War era, the tendency to break down the world into simple dichotomies—free vs. communist, high-brow vs. low-brow—made defining one’s path easy. For our parents’ generation, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement similarly served to divide and define—you were for Civil Rights and against the war, or you weren’t, but either way you knew where you stood. The clothes they wore...
...played in such a venue yielded countless surprises: Students found out who had gotten management-consulting interviews, for instance, on a sheet posted on the college’s cluttered daily announcement board rather than via e-mail. Exam scores, too, were publicly available to all. The conventional path for graduates seemed to tilt toward applying to all available master’s programs and selecting one’s best acceptance—hopefully abroad—rather than doing the same with finance or consulting jobs as might be more typical here...
...upshot, however, is that the fundamental status contest is the same in each place, and the game’s conventions are arbitrary. The options at Harvard for charting a future path, choosing a field of study, or even balancing extra-curricular activities with unstructured time present themselves within certain constraints—rules of the game—that would not always make sense to those viewing from an outside frame of reference. Take, for instance, the incredulity outside the “Harvard bubble” at attempts to explain that going into finance is viewed here...
...looking back on it, it was fortunate that it all worked out. I personally feel that it was a great blessing,” she said. “It made it work out for our marriage. I feel it was kind of providence guiding my path...
...order to complete the last link of a bike path on Massachusetts Ave., the City of Cambridge has moved back the bus stop locations for the MBTA, Harvard, and M2 buses by five parking spaces, according to David E. Harris, Jr., general manager of Harvard Transportation Services...