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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk around Emerson and look up carefully at the eaves you will see the inscription, "What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?" This inscription plaque was originally going to bear some sort of fruity paean to the excellence of man but President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, decided that he was going to teach the faculty a lesson in humility and he ordered that the less than exuberant quotation from Job be chiseled...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...finally arrived, after an interminable summer during which relatives and friends told me over and over how lucky I was and how much I'd love it, I knew why. 8 Prescott Street didn't deserve a name. It stands on the street behind the Freshman Union, a unique sort of thoroughfare because...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Down But Not Out at Harvard | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...takes over completely. Until then the class of '82 will have to meet the non-concentration requirements of the Gen Ed program, while at the same time many of those very courses are being phased out of existence to make way for the much-ballyhooed Core Curriculum. It's sort of like burying the body before it's even cold--but then again, nobody ever said funerals were...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...sailing teams continues operations from the fall, but big shots on the Charles travel in shells, powered by oars. If you have physical endurance and any sort of aptitude for the sport, you should be able to make one of the twelve lightweight or heavyweight, freshmen or upperclass men's boats. Similar opportunities prevail at Weld Boathouse, where the Radcliffe light and heavyweights ship out (yes, "Radcliffe"--the oarswomen remain the only women's athletic squad that shuns the title "Harvard women...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...Another sort of slow day. Smoke dope, play frisbee all day, or lie in the sun, if there is any. there usually isn't any. There are a couple of Freshman Trips, leaving at 9:30 for the Boston Museum of Fine arts and the Revolutionary War sites at Lexington and Concord, but you're bound to have more fun if you go on your...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Welcome to Freshman Week--How About a Game of Catch? | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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