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Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 proposed the change by arguing that honors in general studies was an archaic remnant left over from the days when concentrations were not as central to the undergraduate experience. But though the way students achieve honors has changed, honors in general studies is still a useful and necessary way to reward those who may complete outstanding work that, while while not satisfying the honors requirements for a typical concentration, is just as worthy of praise...
...generation. John and Yoko refused to get out of bed in the name of world peace; Harrison was a man of action, organizing the first celebrity benefit concert to alleviate famine in Bangladesh in 1971. His deep conviction in the power of inner peace and spirituality is a remnant of a time when people believed that it was possible to change the world by loving thy neighbor. In losing Harrison, we lose a part of our parents. The world is without one more person who didn’t understand the good of war or the seeming impossibility of peace...
About the only surviving Grille remnant will be the low ceilings. Lee’s blueprints call for a private dining room, a casual dining area with free tables and booths, “hi-top” and patio seating, and a bar with a 65-person capacity...
Poker has indeed reserved its place in Harvard tradition. One of the school’s most famous graduates, Al Gore ’69, reportedly spent all of his free time playing cards with his friends in Dunster House. The final clubs, the most prominent remnant of Harvard’s elite male establishment, were planned with card games in mind. In addition to libraries, dining rooms and bars, most of the club houses were built with poker rooms...
That’s right. Nothing, especially an old, foul smelling refrigerator found on the sidewalk outside Wigg, stinks too much for the guys in H-12. So naturally, when they found this smelly old remnant of a fridge outside on the pavement they embraced it, they carried it inside, they scrubbed it, they washed it, and most importantly, they loved...