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Some say appearance is everything. As far as parents are concerned, appearance really does mean everything. The night before everyone was to clear out of Harvard for three months of psychological recuperation, my roommates, our proctor, and I downed at least three bottles of Jim Beam and Stolies. I passed out sometime during the night and awoke early next morning when my mom opened my bedroom door...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Huang endorses the philosophy of Harvard's Core Curriculum, but he has encountered many bureaucratic problems because of it. He says he gave up on fulfilling the complicated distribution requirements after his freshman proctor could not explain them. Thus Huang never took enough Humanities courses, and he only recently received permission to graduate when administrators allowed him to count Historical Study B-56, "The Russian Revolution," as a Humanities course. "I guess they don't want to hassle most seniors," he says...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Question Authority | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Sean Doyle sat in the corner at our first proctor meeting. He was the only southern Californian in the group of about 20, and like the rest of us, he could hardly believe what he was hearing. Rob, our proctor, was outlining the punishments for breaking various rules; the worst things warranted expungement...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: The California Kid | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Chernick, who organizes seminars and forums to bring business recruiters and students together throughout the year, says Proctor and Gamble, Banker's Trust, Morgan Stanley, IBM and Kidder-Peabody were among the most popular films this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careers | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

Schollars also had to profess a "good Acquaintance" with the Classics mathematics, natural and moral philosophy, logic and rhetoric. Vestiges of these requirements till remain in the form of the Quantitative Reasoning test (logic), Expository. Writing (rhetoric), the language requirement (Classics, et. al.) and Freshman Week proctor meetings (moral philosophy...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

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