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Immediately, he delved into the Harvard Archives, where he still researches three or four times a week in his quest to “create a living ongoing documentation of dorm life.” Most of his anecdotal material is drawn from archive photographs, most of them taken by a single student in 1901. The book will feature many of these photographs, including one of a luxuriously furnished dorm room, complete with marble busts and oriental rugs from the 1870 class album. In his quest for historic accounts of dorm life, Hill also peruses the student-published Harvard Magazine...
Leaf peepers may have to be extra determined in their quest this fall. With drought conditions still affecting almost half of the continental U.S., many leaves are falling from trees before they get a chance to change colors. And with wildfires still burning in Western states, the foliage across many areas of the Rockies could be obscured by smoke. But there are some bright spots: peepers in the northernmost parts of the Midwest, upstate New York and northern Vermont can anticipate the most intense fall colors of the past few years...
...seldom smiling, he exhorted delegates to shed their quaint affection for the one-size-fits-all welfare state, which he argued cannot deliver services that satisfy voters raised in an era of consumer choice. Without saying much of anything about how he planned to reform services, he painted his quest to do so as heroic: "The radical decision is usually the right one. The right decision is usually the hardest one. And the hardest decisions are often the least popular at the time. We are at our best when at our boldest." His basic message: I will do what...
...funniest moment of the past year. Or so say the scientists from the Laugh Lab at Britain's Hertfordshire University. It was at that precise moment, as part of the university's quest to find the world's biggest punchline, that the people visiting the Laugh Lab's website gave the jokes they found there the highest "funny" rating ever. But I must have missed it. Last week, the Laugh Lab team had a giant chicken unveil the result of their research: the joke below was found to be the world's funniest. But I must have missed that...
...quest for excellence and the compulsive need to excel are entirely different. Perhaps the ability of the less compulsively driven students to understand this is why the old adage holds true: After a few years here, regardless of the number of mornings spent postering, afternoons spent harmonising or evenings spent reviewing, we’ll all be Harvard graduates. And worthy ones at that...