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Running up and down the stairs wearing baby costumes, dresses, and sartorially clashing outfits, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals took the stage in terms of pep and enthusiasm. Prefrosh must have been thankful that they didn’t show too much spirit...
...easiest reply is that students join a community of learning. While the newest members of the undergraduate class are, according to Harvard’s admissions website, supposed to “pursue excellence in a spirit of productive cooperation,” such lofty language appears markedly out of place given the rest of Harvard’s judgments...
This appraisal might seem correct, but some readers might not take issue at Harvard’s individualistic approach. After all, it seems that the idea of community at a university is not appropriate in today’s spirit of modern equality. Each student, free to make of his time here what he wishes, can, as the College’s admissions video reminds its viewers, make academics “whatever you choose it to be.” The same could be said, then, of every other component of student life as well...
Between the spirit of the town and having each other for encouragement, it was no wonder they all got hooked...
...intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution,” says Doris Sommer, a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and African and African American Studies, “it’s in the spirit of [Marxist thinker Antonio] Gramsci—of reformism through cultural practices, because it gets people to read and write at a high level, in which creativity and critical thinking are recognized...