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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What would such a synthesis look like? Using social life as one example, a synthetic approach might agree that structuralists are right that the absence of hallways in many dorms and Houses and the domination of final clubs over the party scene make it extremely difficult for the majority of...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

The problem with this kind of synthesis is that it is too pat, too easy for those coming from each perspective to only pay lip service to the other. If believing in synthesis means accepting that individualism and structure are two points on a continuum rather than two mutually exclusive...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

What is flawed in these statements is the assumption that how Harvard impacts you is how it will impacts others. A more complex synthesis would be individually-tailored, recognizing that the same structures can have different effects based on the individual talents and capacities that each person brings to bear...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Harvard is--more than either its structures or its students--an ethos, a belief that success by conventional standards should precede all else. A true synthesis of individual and structure recognizes that the difference between happiness and unhappiness at Harvard is a matter of individual fit, of whether one's...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

O.K., I said one day, show me Zelda. Nat grinned. And like a giddy tour guide, he showed me Princess Zelda's kingdom. "You gotta see this. Look what happens when you go to the Temple of Time. Check out the graphics when you use the light arrows." The game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Love Zelda | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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