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...Although extracurriculars are indeed integral to the Harvard education, the faculty’s disconcerting initiative threatens to disrupt an already successful system.The initiative is based on the perception of a twofold “problem:” first, that students have “a tendency??to regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience,” and second, that “few formal procedures” exist for faculty to encourage students to connect the two. The first is not entirely true, and the second is not entirely a problem.Overlap between...
...label. Egypt’s President Mubarak immediately condemned the American plan, declaring “All peoples by their nature reject whoever tries to impose ideas on them.” One Al-Hayat writer put it even more bluntly, denouncing “the imperial tendency?? of “spreading democracy in the Middle East as a way to take over the region.” Nor has the backlash been limited to the Arab world. Our European allies—shockingly—have been cool to the plan as well, with...
...Bertram, Nicholas had the opposite tendency?? he grew better as the play progressed. He certainly showed arrogance, but not as much as one would hope (indeed, it seemed almost a waste of talent that Gamboa failed to draw more on the naturally occurring arrogance of young, egotistical Harvard students). But this isn’t to disparage Nicholas; he did give a strong performance, especially during his attempted seduction of Diana (Emily V. W. Galvin ’04), his would-be lover...
...Bertram, Nicholas had the opposite tendency?? he grew better as the play progressed. He certainly showed arrogance, but not as much as one would hope (indeed, it seemed almost a waste of talent that Gamboa failed to draw more on the naturally occurring arrogance of young, egotistical Harvard students). But this isn’t to disparage Nicholas; he did give a strong performance, especially during his attempted seduction of Diana (Emily V. W. Galvin ’04), his would-be lover...
...Harvard community has yet to succeed in comfortably juxtaposing athletics and academics. There is a latent tendency??among teaching staffs, fellow classmates and even athletes themselves—to place an individual in either one category or the other but not to allow them to straddle the two. The message is you are either an athlete (“dumb jock”) or a (committed) student, but never both. Early on, perhaps by my second semester, I had come to the realization that to be taken seriously as a student—in essence, to avoid...