Word: performancy
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...called an expanding “social scene” at Harvard.Perhaps the year’s greatest success sprung from the year’s greatest failure, Wyclef. The Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a semi-autonomous wing of the UC, had planned to bring Wyclef Jean to perform on campus during the first week of November, but sluggish ticket sales compelled the HCC to cancel the show less than a week before it was scheduled. By backing out, the UC lost $30,000 in fees, but it would likely have lost three times that had it not cancelled.After this...
...would resonate well with graduating Harvard students.” This is hardly the first time that Fisher’s voice has found a wide audience. As a member of the Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, Fisher gave a private performance for Princess Caroline of Monaco. Fisher says the princess enjoyed the performance so much that she extended a special invitation to the group. “She invited us all to perform at the palace in Monaco this summer,” Fisher writes in an e-mail...
...know what more she could do to prove herself on the junior circuit. And then she helped the Harvard fencing squad to its best season ever. After that: a repeat of her Junior Worlds glory. It was an improbable ending to a season that started off slowly; despite strong performances in Ivy play, Cross struggled in international competition. “There was a lot of rust there,” Crimson coach Peter Brand says. “But I think she revitalized and she gained some energy throughout the year. As we were moving forward through the season...
...probably contracted the Syndrome at an early age. Growing up, I was raised to believe that if I did good work, those at the top would take notice, and one day I would be invited to perform all those important roles I aspired to fill ever since I was a teenager. I would be asked to be Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and later, its foreign minister. Other than the fatal illusion that college in America resembles “Grease,” it’s probably the reason I went to Harvard...
...doesn’t make way, no matter how great we are and how big our dreams. Whether we believe in God or not, we are secretly driven by the vague feeling that we were not endowed with our brains and talents for nothing. We have a duty to perform, a service to render to the world. We all come to Harvard carrying a dream, a private ambition for ourselves. But most of us will leave our dreams behind as we move through life. Unless our dreams are to become upper-middle class professionals, we will discover that our college...