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...whims of their bosses.A university is fragile and thrives on love. Yes, love! Harvard’s matchless resources and influence do not make it a healthy community. More than anything else, old Harvard hands have been distressed by the community’s loss of joy and pride. We hope for leaders who can again unite us—leaders whose selfless devotion to Harvard is apparent even in their clear-eyed criticisms.We have all learned from the past five years. With all of Harvard’s strengths, it will flourish—if it doesn?...
...architecture by portraying House residents as crazed Soviet soldiers. “Us Leverett House will just have to deal with breaking off from the rest of Harvard,” Wilson’s video concludes. And, in a fitting conclusion to a College career marked by Leverett pride, Wilson is the recipient of the House’s David McCord prize for “artistic contributions” to Leverett. The McCord award is not the only honor she’s racked up this past year. In October, she won the jury prize for best student...
...Instead of pointing a finger at Kerry for what she calls a "cheap and blatant political ploy," she should remember that Republicans are masters at exploiting divisive issues that rile single-issue voters on the right and get them to the polls. Richard Oliver Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. Catalan Pride on the Pitch I was disappointed by Franklin Foer's essay about European football, "Homage to Catalonia" [May 22]. Foer said that over the years, his view of the Barcelona club "has grown ever more romantic," owing to its anti-Franco traditions. If he was willing to link football with...
...called “All-College Weekend” has been abandoned as a miserable flop. Yet when President Pusey replied to Senator McCarthy’s charges that there was hardly a single undergraduate who was not proud of his university and its president. This kind of pride, demonstrated by the faculty in their commendations for the president and the administration, is a clue to the real spirit that is Harvard, a spirit that was summed up by the philosopher George Santayana, who near the turn of the century wrote that the undergraduate “does, except when...
...heart.Her father’s family is from Alabama, and she moved to Nashville shortly after graduating from the College.Long before she would revolutionize a Southern literary classic, she says she “rediscovered her Southern roots.”Randall often says, with a hint of pride, that her father “never wore a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old.” Though her parents sent her to the prestigious Georgetown Day School in D.C. and later to Harvard, her childhood was certainly less than idyllic.“She?...