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...pass for the veritable veritas, the article explains, one need only learn the difference between Eliot House and Animal House, Elsie's and Eli's, and Proust and Pirandello...
James D. Wilkinson, head tutor of History and Literature, said Bosmag's advice to read one volume of Proust and say you are concentrating in History and Literature would not fool any Harvard students. "A clever History and Lit person would deny having read any Proust, but would really have read all seven volumes in French," he said...
European art of the more or less distant past, be it Dante or Giotto, Proust or Mondrian, cannot be properly appreciated without a great deal of study and contemplation. Harvard undergraduates in general do not think the art important enough to be worth the effort and devote most of their time to economics and biology. The faculty do little to convince them they are wrong...
Approach #4. The Cultivated Superiority Approach. Prerequisite: before you arrive in Cambridge, compile a list of things that you have done or that your family owns that are sure to impress anybody. A subdivision of this is Intellectual One-Upmanship. If your new roommate has read all of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, come right back at him with your A.P. scores (fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everything. Wear a lot of preppie...
...collection of essays, subtitled Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions, balances biographical and clinical evidence with psychological speculation and common sense. "We do not test the consecrated wine for hemoglobin content, nor would Careme's recipe for a madeleine give us insight into the workings of Proust's imagination " he writes. "But literature is often a transformation of experience, and it can be illuminating to find out just what the expeirence was and how the writer used...