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Though Perlstein’s piece points to the college experience’s slide toward the vocational as a primary agent in its downfall, both the Times and mtvU acknowledged—perhaps ironically—that entrants may rightfully view the contest as a chance to propel their post-graduate aspirations...
Like any other spacecraft, Dawn will have to be muscled off its launchpad by a conventional rocket burning conventional propellant. Once it climbs to near Earth space, however, everything will change. Of all the things that add weight to a spacecraft, fuel presents the most problems. The farther you're going, the more propellant you need, but every pound of it you add means more mass the engine must propel, which requires more fuel still, and on and on. A spacecraft like Dawn, which is designed not just to fly by its two targets but also to settle into orbit...
Although Yale struck first and held two leads in the game, freshman Andre’ Akpan tallied two goals and an assist to propel Harvard to victory...
...them will choose one of the most popular: government, economics, biology, or social studies. But a fraction of undergraduates will go against the tide, picking one of Harvard’s smallest concentrations, such as statistics, folklore and mythology, or Sanskrit and Indian studies.But these more obscure concentrations can propel their members to distant and diverse futures—even if their specificity might raise eyebrows at a cocktail party.INDIA TO ILLINOISHalf a world away, a fuzzy telephone connection between India and Cambridge provides a glimpse into the life of one Harvard graduate whose choice of concentration was as unconventional...
...making skills while working in Harvard dining halls, before leaving for Puerto Rico in 2001. As Luny and Tunes (Francisco Saldaña and Victor Cabrera, respectively) return to Harvard tomorrow night to host Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latin American cultural festival, the music they helped to propel into the limelight has taken on an institutional legitimacy few could have anticipated just a few years ago.In many ways, reggaeton is currently at the kind of cultural crosroads that hip-hop encountered in the mid-1980s. Now, as then, music critics are excited by the genre?...