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THERE COMES A TIME IN EVERY SENIOR'S LIFE when he must rise and face three questions: What is your height? What is your weight? And what is your hat size? Harvard Coop cap and gown consultant Joseph E. Sicari, who has been measuring Harvard seniors' heads for 10 years, says men are sensitive about their height, and women have issues revealing their weight. But disclosing the size of their noggins truly strips people down to their greatest bodily fear. "The graduates come in groups, and everyone is afraid of being the one with the biggest head." Sicari explains. "Some...
...average head measures between seven and a quarter to seven and a half inches, but some Harvard students, believe it or not, register eight inches or more. At Harvard, where swelled egos and bloated brains prosper, people are particularly conscious of their head size. According to Sicari, the majority of huge-headed people try to blow off their shame with comments like, "It's probably all the knowledge I have...
Before the had his picture taken for the year-book, Constantine M. Caraminis '99 says he had no idea his head size was an issue. "I think my head has reasonable proportion," he says. "If it's disproportionately large, I never thought about it." His perceptions were warped when, as part of the shoot, he had to don a cap and gown from the photographer's wardrobe. Unfortunately, all of the mortarboards were too small. "The woman just kept making these comments like, 'You must have a lot of brain in there,'" Caraminis recalls...
Yoni E. Braude '99 says he won a debate over who had the biggest head in the dining hall one night. He attributes his win not to the sheer girth of his skull but the size of his hair, which is black and curly...
...always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which simply aggregate search results from other engines.MORE...