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...Harvard students, we’re spoon-fed an awful lot of codswallop about our university. Best this, first that; it’s sunshine and rainbows all the time. But Harvard students have always been wiser than our resident propagandists have assumed. We’ve been taught to challenge authority and never to shy away from calling a spade a spade. Consequently, we complain a lot, and we always have...
...gift was given to the school district at a ceremony yesterday at the Amigos School that featured Hasty Pudding members dressed in drag and the cast of Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s production of “Guys and Dolls.” Hasty Pudding members also taught a group of Amigos students to perform in a kick-line. The theatrical society raises funds for the gifts by asking audience members for donations, efforts that have been widely praised by local politicians and officials. “This is a fabulous example of a partnership where Harvard University...
...mathematician, but the discoveries by the forebears of the craft have done a pretty good job holding up over time. Isaac Newton showed us gravity. Albert Einstein taught us that everything is relative. And Euclid, the most famous mathematician of all, predicted a Harvard victory tomorrow in the 124th edition of The Game.He didn’t explicitly say Yale would lose, but it’s easy to extrapolate from one of his most basic geometrical rules: no physical object can be one-dimensional.And so go the hopes of the Bulldogs, a team that enters The Game riding the legs...
More than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to the west, in the Angolan capital Luanda, another entrepreneur, Adrito Cassolongo, faces far tougher prospects. As a young man, he taught himself English and wangled a job with the U.N. Then, with a civil war raging, he caught a plane to South Africa, where he slept rough on the streets of Pretoria before becoming a boxer and earning $30 a week. In the evenings, he taught English to other Angolans, then built his own computers from spare parts and used them to set up a computer-training school. Today Cassolongo...
...Harvard last year before the security guards won any changes for their contracts. Hunger strike organizer Jamila R. Martin ’07 noted the importance of student protests, saying that “most of the time you’re sitting down in a classroom, being taught at... So standing up and saying, I disagree, and having an active voice, instead of being told what the answers are, is really important...