Word: severities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Hall and Sever: Now we're in the danger zone. These rooms are small, the lighting is very bright and the stages are raised...
...been at Harvard for any significant length of time, you've unfortunately been through the drill. You enroll in a large Core or departmental course, find your name among dozens of other students on the section list and appear at the appointed hour in Sever Hall. Maybe you're a little late, and so when you open the door to the room, you see that not only are all the seats at the small table occupied, but the free-standing desks are full. People are sitting on the floor...
...ridiculous number in the first place. As Knowles himself declared in an interview with Harvard Magazine last spring, "I should much rather have a discussion for 55 minutes with 12 people than with 20." For one thing, 12 people can actually fit around one of those tables in Sever...
...fine public relations organization lies in the provision of performance space. The Kuumba Singers, a group dedicated to the presentation of works in the African-American musical tradition, cannot secure rehearsal space anywhere in the University. According to a senior member of that group, the room in Sever Hall which it made use of last year has been assigned to the extension school and the other spaces which the OFA can make available are either too small or give preference to dramatic productions...
With the start of the school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...