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Quote of the Week: "I didn't know if I was winning or I was losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days."--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about...
"You want an interesting thesis story? Come see me tomorrow in Stillman and you'll probably hear one," one senior said as he raised his champagne cup.
"Hello. Have it. Good riddance," was the simple greeting of Astrid M. Carver '89 as she handed in her essay. The two students who followed her were busy peeling Coop price tags off their thesis binders, and didn't laugh.
Thesis titles spanned an interesting range, from "The Nature of Ulster Violence" to "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My" to "Sex and Sales in the American Department Store." Among others on Dickens, Faulkner, and textile industries, there was also a thesis on Batman and "Changes in Comic Book Storytelling...
Staff workers at the History and Literature office said they were surprised by the efficiency of many thesis writers. "People were calling up last week asking if they could turn in their theses early," said one staffer. Department secretary Melanie A. Murphy observed at 4 p.m. that "only 30 theses...