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Early in September, I was rather puzzled when I heard a friend say, “I expected Harvard to be a more intellectual place.” I asked her exactly what she meant, and she responded that she thought students here would be more willing to have intellectual conversations more often. The thought remained vaguely in my mind and only completely resurfaced when I heard yet another friend voice a similar complaint: He also wanted to discuss more “intelligent” and “intellectual” topics with other students...
...students, our personal conversations often venture into less academic matters, and this isn’t necessarily negative. It’s unrealistic and unfair to expect Harvard students to make every conversation a weighty one. We go to classes and attend sections where such conversations take place between students, professors, and teaching fellows. We labor every night over readings and essays that deal precisely with these academic matters. In this context, it’s nice to simply sit down at the lunch table and have a completely nonsensical conversation about sharks swimming up the Ohio River with...
Though dinner discussions aren’t filled with purely academic topics, Harvard is still a place where students think about their place and significance in the world. E-mail lists and posters constantly advertise events with public intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Michael Sandel, and the fact that these events happen so often is an indicator of the thriving intellectual community at our school. Perhaps when we feel that we are losing touch with this community we should blame not our fellow students but ourselves; how often do we delete these emails without reading them or glance at posters...
...City of Cambridge—and Harvard University facilities in the city—remain unaffected by a major water main leak that took place Saturday in Weston, Mass. and has left an estimated two million Boston area residents without potable tap water...
With a first-place finish in the Varsity Four B, and two runner-up and two third-place finishes, No. 18 Radcliffe (3-7) relied on its depth to win the fourth annual Beanpot Regatta. The Black and White amassed 43 points–just three points ahead of Northeastern–to claim its fourth-consecutive team championship trophy...