Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trudged up the four flights to my room, Ellen's half bare and spotless, my own strewn with notecards, crumpled typewritten pages and books. Sorting through the mess. I discovered a note addressed to me in Ellen's spidery handwriting. It read...
This summer you received a reading list. And because you thirst for knowledge, you have read each book carefully, checked out some contemporary criticism, and jotted down a few random notes to help guide your discussions with friends and roommates. If you did all these things, you are at the wrong school, pointy-head. The proper response to your roommates scholarly query, "What did you think of those books?" is, "What books?" or "Let's smoke some dope...
...with a cult following. Depressed? There is a 24-hour store in the Square that markets marijuana paraphernalia, or, if you're broke, there's the Hare Krishna group that congas through the Square regularly. Bored? Some nice man, usually representing a stereo store, will hand you things to read, and when you're finished, there's a construction project, with real cranes and jackhammers and union members to watch. Wowie zowie...
Mass Ave is not Cambridge's only street though. On the Porter Square side of Harvard, you can follow Concord Avenue out to Fresh Pond (Huron Avenue), past the University Observatory, Keeezer's Harvard Exchange 'read pawnbroker', historic houses with leafy front yards and the National Guard armory. Brattle Street is chic Cambridge--its residents, the "Brattle Street liberal elite," are famous for their riches, their devotion to causes celebres, and their walls. If you don't see the wall at the corner of Brattle and Fresh Pond Parkway, your tuition has gone to waste. This serpentine wonder causes several...
Class Reunion is not the worst of the recent books on Harvard. Unlike Enrique Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, Jaffe has no axe to grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more smoothly than The Mem Hall Murders. In the end Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell...