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Baseball is coming back. Whoopdeedoo. It took the loss of the World Series to remind me how little I care for three hours of called strikes and beer commercials, interrupted by several minutes of multi-millionaires chasing after a ball...
What about pencils? Who still uses them? They can't write in blue, or black. They can't look decisive or bold. They remind us of high school math class. Ahh, but here's the one, obvious beauty of a pencil: graphite disappears with a little help from that wonder of physics, friction. Pencils at Harvard are reserved for either those who aren't vain enough to care about permanence or for taking exams, where we would rather not have our confused hieroglyphics remembered. Pencil use has its hierarchy, though: note the dichotomy between integral-calculators, who use mechanical pencils...
Members of the faculty and the administration should not shy away from confronting issues, rather they should serve as models of civic virtue for students. Rudenstine and others must remind us all that this Collage should be a great forum for ideas and discussion, not just of academic issues, but of pressing problems...
...world with so much passion and so littletrue conviction, Ernest will always remind us ofwhat it means to be a truly principled humanbeing," Bok concluded...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals? Is it really helpful to refer to us and our audience by such hurtful names as "the entitled," "the bourgeoisie," "the glitterati" and "the so-called cultural elite"? We think not. Still, while we sting from Ms. Rose's caustic, painfully accurate Leninist barbs, we must remind her that the majority of students in attendance were--like herself--seeing the show for free, as the guests of company members, each of whom was given at least one complimentary ticket to the show. Although Ms. Rose seems to imply that the audience was full of members...