Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often, despite a constantly touted diversity, students leaving Harvard comment on the homogenizing effect of their four years in Cambridge. That process begins early in a student's Harvard career. The suggested summer reading for incoming freshman is the Education of Henry Adams, a bible of New England culture written by the same man who complained of immigrants snarling a weird yiddish. (I like to think it was my ancestors who annoyed this 19th century man's sensibilities.) At the 350th anniversary celebration, Charles, Prince of Wales will speak at one of the main convocations, the one dedicated to celebrating...
...personal eccentricity. Gould's quirks are legendary: he played in a chair so low his face was only inches from the keyboard, never gave a public concert after the early 1960s (he thought listening to music should be a solitary experience), and wore winter jackets in the heat of summer...
Many students, organizers say, are drawn to the Institute in the summer because of the Harvard location and name. This helps explain why 30 percent of the program's enrollment does not come from a Ukrainian background. Many of these students major in Soviet studies...
Another attraction is the program's minimal cost. Tuition for eight credits, or two courses, is only $200. The summer program is subsidized by a $25,000 grant from the Ukrainian Studies Fund, a multi-million-dollar community chest for higher education...
...dirty joke? How you sort of giggled and looked nervous because you weren't quite sure if you understood what you were saying? And then you had this feeling that what you were doing wasn't right, but that made the joke even funnier. This season's first Harvard Summer Theater production, Cloud 9, is a lot like that first dirty joke...