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...stopping its usual routine. If the Blizzard of 1978 is any indication, Harvard can essentially operate without any overarching guidance or direction. But merely allowing a university to trudge forward under its own power endangers the university’s long-term aims; mere repetition of the daily slog does not constitute a march forward...
They landed on sulfur island--Iwo Jima to the Japanese army that held it--on Feb. 19, 1945. On the fifth day of the death slog (the battle would rage for another five weeks), U.S. troops had commandeered enough of the island to reach the peak of Mount Suribachi. "Put a flag up there," one officer advised, and a few men did. But some bigwig wanted it as a souvenir, so six other men planted a second pole and raised the Stars and Stripes one more time. That was the tableau captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal--the one that told...
...school. Between dinner schedules and hourly church bells, it’s easy to feel shuttled from lunch to lecture hall, seven minutes in between to make a quick call. We maneuver our majors and lever four courses while grinding out papers and working on labs. This tiring slog then makes other restrictions on campus feel all the more burdensome, from no nails in dorm walls to office hours by appointment only.We should be accustomed to this stress and structure by senior year, but it seems several summers of urban independence have only made brick walls and handbooks harder...
...applaud Harvard" for eradicating early admissions altogether, says Pete Caruso, associate director of admissions at B.C. Five years ago, he says he might have been firmly in that camp. But today, the onslaught of applications-boosted by the ease of applying online-makes the administrative slog of processing them nearly unmanageable. Beginning the process early buys overworked college admissions workers a little extra time to provide "quality reads," he says...
DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...