Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After speaking at MIT, Zhu attended a luncheon in Boston with a group from Harvard including President Neil L. Rudenstine, University Marshall Richard M. Hunt and Ford Professor of the Social Science Ezra F. Vogel, also director of the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Studies...
After speaking at MIT, Zhu attended a luncheon in Boston with a group from Harvard including President Neil L. Rudenstine, University Marshall Richard M. Hunt and Ford Professor of the Social Science Ezra F. Vogel, also director of the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Studies...
...perhaps, Harvard students of all years tend to think they have a good command of this institution, that their knowledge of the Harvard Experience is relatively complete regardless of the stage of it at which they actually find themselves. Thus a sophomore is overheard explaining to someone how the social scene at Harvard works, or a junior feels she truly understands what the value of writing a senior thesis...
...some blockmates, concentration (that you'll probably change) and most important, a feeling of having returned somewhere where people know you. After sophomores settle down, they begin to feel that they know what's going on. They are no longer confined to the Yard or the Grille for their social lives, and by the end of the year, already countless sections into college, sophomores tend to think they are on the verge of understanding the workings of the University--how to beat class lotteries, what "advising" means, etc.--and they realize, frighteningly enough, that they are half way done with...
...meaningful when you realize them for yourself), there is one, I think, that applies to everyone: Spending four years in pursuit of knowledge is enough to teach you that at college's end, you have even more to learn than when you started. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...