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...have to pursue this,” my friend said after my gastronomical ramblings had at last come to a close. And, in a rare moment of concession, I realized he was right...
That feeling of subjugation, a positive plunge from the heights of academic superiority, is for the best. It’s rare to come upon opportunities that offer such a direct means of teaching ourselves humility. We are told that volunteering might war with our ego-centrism, but many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...
...25th finish with a respectable 77-79. Sophomore Nick Moseley followed with 79-80 and freshmen Timmy Wu and Louis Amira chipped in 79-81 and 82-84 performances, respectively. Typically the team takes five players to compete in each tournament, but the Northeast Invitational presents a rare opportunity to play more of the team. The Invitational finished out the Crimson’s season, which was not without dramatic moments. A first-ever win at the Yale tournament after 33 years certainly was the high point. A fourth-place finish at the long-awaited Ivy Championships left the team...
...said. “Obviously, we’ve never faced them before, [and] the rankings are based on comparative results across the country. We didn’t know what we were going to see, and to upset the No. 3 team in the first varsity is a rare and awesome thing.”“We were really excited for this weekend, because Yale is the defending champion in the varsity, and both are incredibly strong programs,” Moore said. “This was the first year we raced Virginia in what...
Joshua Redman ’91 is positively infuriating. The winner of the 2008 Harvard Arts Medal, he was that guy: the quintessential Harvard student, the one who cures rare diseases and can whip up a mean soufflé—or, in Redman’s case, solves the world’s social problems and plays a mean saxophone. Now, he is one of the world’s foremost jazz musicians, with a style that is at once poised and loose, technically excellent and creatively free. But technique and creativity haven’t always been...