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...news board before moving on to work at Mission Hill and Harvard Model Congress. “Being an English major is great training for being a journalist,” Savage said in a phone interview. He explained that the skills needed for analyzing a long piece of prose are the same as those needed for analyzing, digesting, and explaining lengthy government documents. Daniel M. Engber ’98, now a writer for Slate and a friend of Savage from their days in Winthrop, worked with Savage at the Advocate. He recalled their experience writing for the travel...
...rejoice, then, while we are young,” exhorts the Latin prose above the set of antiquated doors. Starting on Thursday, patrons of the Queen’s Head, Harvard’s long-awaited pub, will be able to do just that. But visitors can rest assured that the revelry won’t come at the expense of historical ambience. The pub’s planners have equipped the new space, located under Annenberg Hall in the Memorial Hall complex, with everything from museum artifacts to paintings to bring patrons back to the tavern?...
...real-life context. ‘A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE’“There’s only beginning to be a forum here at Harvard, because people don’t understand how pervasive the problem is,” said a male student who contributed a prose piece called “Darkroom.”He wrote the piece about his struggle to deal with a previous experience of his girlfriend’s, he said.“She reviewed every draft, and writing has been a very emotional and therapeutic process...
...between the editors. “The key thing is we always stand behind the piece even when somebody else would write it differently. There usually are many attempts by someone else to write it... and you’ll come in and be like, What happened to my prose? What happened to my ideas? and you’ll have to undo what the previous person did up to a point. They would have been argued out enough that we would say, ‘I don’t always agree with it, but I stand...
...Maybe it’s because we’re smarter that we realize it doesn’t take the complicated prose of our academic papers to embarrass, belittle and antagonize our opponents. Maybe it’s because, through the laws of environment, the world rewards those who treat it best with a better arsenal of insults...