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Tuned in to the many ongoing debates on campus, I have been dumbstruck by a spate of opinions that smack of the one thing that each of us probably swore we would never exhibit: old-school snobbery. That’s right, snobbery: the unwarranted and self-congratulatory intellectual snobbery that tries to castigate an entire segment of the student body—athletes, for example—as unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This...
Admittedly, Eliot’s recent spate of fire alarms has been somewhat unusual—of the three total alarms of this semester, two occurred within a 30-hour period. The cause of the problem, however, was also unusual and has already been addressed. (A smoke detector in a basement bakery was tripped by steam and water that had been generated by recent maintenance work done on a nearby wall.) We’re pleased that maintenance officials are taking steps to correct this issue, and we encourage the University to do whatever it can to similarly reduce...
Breaux, a freshman wide receiver for the Harvard football team, was last on the depth chart heading into training camp. But weeks later, after an impressive performance against Lehigh and after a spate of injuries took its toll on the Crimson’s receiver corps, Breaux now finds his name at the top of the same chart...
...complicate the recent spate of injuries, the Crimson entered the year handicapped by the loss of two of its offensive stars for the season—junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito. In addition, junior midfielder Tom Stapleton, who arrived Tuesday and should be eligible for Saturday’s match at Yale, missed the first six games after struggling to get his student visa to enter the United States from England...
While its youngest talent spread out to a spate of regattas spanning New England, four of the Crimson’s elder statesmen piled into larger craft this weekend at the New England Sloops Championships, held at the Coast Guard Academy...