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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...
Before the week started—before a pile of players on the infield grass, a Gatorade-soaked Joe Walsh and 25 championship rings on order—the Harvard baseball team needed three victories...
Senior Nick Carter fielded the ball and fired to first. As the ball popped into senior Josh San Salvador’s mitt, Carter hurled his glove into the sunny afternoon sky and the players swarmed the field in ecstasy to pile high on the infield grass...
...goal before the game was to end with a pile-on,” Nyweide said, “and that’s what we ended with...