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...first experience out of many that drew us closer together. The following morning, as we waited groggily to get picked up to go to our first day of work, one of the freshmen on our trip, Lester Kim ’11, taught us the game “Whoosh and Bong.” As he swept his arms in one direction in a “whoosh” and swept them in another in a “bong,” he enlightened our circle about how to whoosh and bong each other. As we practiced...
...Monday night, things were different in Quincy dining hall: Students were counting cards instead of carbs. Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business put down their résumés and picked up poker chips. The reason? A blackjack tutorial taught by Bill B. Kaplan ’77, the founder of the MIT blackjack team that inspired the book “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21,” and David A. Irvine, a former member of the team. “21” has received heavy media attention...
...Pattabhi Jois, who taught Natascha here, was a disciple of Krishnamacharya, whose style he took to the world. But she also studied with Jois's student B.N.S. Iyengar, who moved away from his guru's rigidly-defined sequence of postures towards greater emphasis on the spiritual. "If anyone asks me for advice, I suggest Jois for flexibility, and Iyengar for concentration," she says, while demonstrating a split and touching her forehead to the ground as nonchalantly as a cat stretching after...
...also the director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “It’s like having the opportunity to engage the real world and choosing to deny yourself even the possibility.” Law professor Richard D. Parker, who restricted laptop usage when he taught first-year students, said he did not see the educational value of allowing Internet use during class but he also did not support the University of Chicago’s prohibition. “One of the arguments is that our students are adults and if they want to allow...
According to Harvard Philosophy Professor Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr., the College’s moral reasoning Core requirement is in line with the idea that students should be taught personal and social responsibility...