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...example, former President Lawrence H. Summers recognized these structural obstacles to improving the undergraduate experience using traditional means—and so he chose to fund the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and Lamont Café with his own discretionary fund. While we hope Faust will continue to take bold steps such as these in helping undergraduates, we hope that a more long-term, structural change can be made to lessen the need for temporary allocations of the discretionary budget...
...this disappointment will be laid to rest in April with the opening of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. Old crew pennants from the Henley Cup, portraits of a positively paternal A. Lawrence Lowell, Former Unviersity President, and all manner of similarly rich Harvard bric-a-brac will adorn the walls of the space under Memorial Hall, in the shadow of the stifling modernity of the Science Center. Who’s laughing now, Jonas Salk...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has said that he hopes the pub will feel, instantly, as if it’s “part of the Harvard tradition.” Judging by the architectural sketches, which depict bookshelves (made of what I would hope is stolen Honduran mahogany) and an arbitrary globe perched on Oriental carpet, he’ll get his wish...
What’s more, the pub will serve its own unique brand of beer produced by Boston’s Harpoon Brewery, proudly named 1636. Student, drop that Pabst: This is the alcoholic equivalent of the Veritas waffles. You can even taste the pretension...
...Harvard students do complain about not having a student union. Incessantly. And, in the past three years, we have successfully agitated for a 24-hour library, a student pub, universal swipe card access, later dining hours, college-wide performing artists, and fair trade bananas—gripes reminiscent of Dell and Mylavarapu’s criticisms of Oxford. As Gerson put it, “American universities are extraordinarily consumer driven, with the student being king. The consumer culture of American universities has not been transported to Britain. You’d think that scholars would welcome that...