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Evacuation Day is perpetually doomed to second-rate celebration status, and, in all fairness, it probably deserves it. The British occupation, which resulted in the Boston Massacre and the closure of Boston's port, was certainly not a pleasant experience. When the Tories left the city in 1776, it was a significant victory for the Continental forces. On the other hand, it doesn't have quite the emotional impact or historical significance of, say, the Battle of Gettysburg...
...managed to pull gentleman's Cs. Ronald Ferry, then head of Winthrop House, characterized JFK as "reasonably inconspicuous," and an old friend recalls his amorous reputation: "Jack never even went steady until late in his senior year." Author and Crimson editor Cleveland Amory '39, described him as "a pleasant, interesting guy. But the legend that we considered him destined for the presidency is pure hogwash." As JFK discovered during the Cold War, and as his former classmates witnessed during his reign in the White House, never underestimate the potential of the red, or the crimson, tide. A 1961 article...
This type of mistake happens at Harvard all the time. Just last semester, in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics," there was a problem set in which almost all of the solutions were written in the course pack. Those who found this pleasant gift used the answers to improve their performance on the problem set. Perhaps the purpose of putting the answers in the reading was to encourage students to actually read the coursepack. In that case, students should be commended for doing all of the work assigned for the class. Using the answers in this sense is a part...
...GRIP For Luddites who still write with pens, A.T. Cross has developed a high-tech item to make the job more pleasant. Twist a dial on its Morph pen ($50), and the device changes from its initial cylindrical shape into a flexible triangular prism, giving you a better grip and providing soft, flat surfaces for your thumb, index and middle fingers. The rubbery material has a pleasant, almost sensual feel, and the sleek design--available in eight colors, including copper, gold and green--makes a style statement...
...When I arrived at "The Living Room," not only was I greeted with the pleasant aroma of coffee and shortbread, along with the sounds of an Italian concerto, but host for the day Frank DiMaria personally introduced himself and invited me to make myself comfortable. As I browsed through his art objects-books on Egyptian philosophy, sheet music by Maurice Chevalier, cheap miniature sphinxes-I overheard the conversations of other patrons as they indeed discussed their ideas about the art they had seen that day. Far from the imposing gallery room in which novice visitors muffle their comments for fear...