Word: salients
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...hooking up with Daisy’s blockmate on a pool table at the Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand Jay Gatsbys at Harvard. Character: Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn...
...Waite arrived at the famously dubbed “Kremlin on the Charles” as a conservative from Chicago, Ill. He is heavily involved with the campus organization Harvard Right to Life, and the conservative publication The Harvard Salient...
Waite, the publisher of The Harvard Salient, does not have a background in comedy, but found material on YouTube, including ads from the Lyndon B. Johnson-Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964, to help shape his campaign. His running mate, Alexandra A. Petri ’10, is a co-president of the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society and a member of On Harvard Time, making her one of four UC candidates this year who have worked on the show. She also writes a biweekly column for The Crimson...
When Harvard Law School (HLS) first offered a class entitled “Animal Law” in the spring of 2000, the Harvard Salient predicted catastrophe. “Radical Ape Activists Storm the Law School,” screamed the satirical headline, in a piece that went on to claim, rather more sternly, that the course would lead to lawsuits against Harvard’s own research laboratories for abusing animals...
...should recognize that the CEB can learn from its mistakes in putting on this concert and be more successful in the future. Despite the concert’s shortcomings, there were many successful aspects of the pep rally on the whole—the increased turnout being the most salient of them. Despite how things turned out, the CEB’s choice of artist was inspired and its ability to get Girl Talk to come was very impressive. We hope the CEB’s ability to select and bring similar artists is not impeded in the future, either...