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...bring up the comparisons with Yale because Harvard's House system today is in grave danger of becoming irrelevant. Most of today's undergraduates view the Houses merely as upperclass dormitories. Tutors provide little, if any, academic instruction and are compared to "resident advisors" at other schools. Harvard students do not identify with their Houses the way they did several decades ago. The first question an alum asks is, "What House are you in?" Today, we pose the question to fellow students as "Where do you live?" And with two major shocks to the House system during my brief stint...
...deny that House spirit exists today. A handful of Houses have done a remarkable job holding onto their existing traditions or creating new ones. Lowell has its opera and masters' tea; Kirkland has "incestfest" and the House boat club; Adams its masquerade and gong (flawed as it is as a symbol of exclusion); and Pforzheimer has revived Quad spirit on the wings of its Pfunny name. But the availability of House-based activities is wildly inconsistent across the Houses, and there certainly isn't any spirit or rivalry in the House system itself. Cabot residents may be very enthusiastic about...
...group is oppressed by another group in America today," Horowitz said. "One of the most terrible things the Left has done" has been through affirmative action "to take an achieving black middle class, and undermine its achievement," he said...
...backgrounds come together through common interests, forming life-long friendships in the process. Final clubs in particular are fortunate to have had a founding group of members who out of their love for their club and their alma mater purchased the real estate and built the facilities we see today. Most final clubs have existed for at least 100 years--long before much of Harvard or the house system itself was in place. Prior restrictions on guests, as well as recent, stricter policies, do not reflect final club elitism, as has been suggested in The Crimson, but instead a conscious...
...backgrounds come together through common interests, forming life-long friendships in the process. Final clubs in particular are fortunate to have had a founding group of members who out of their love for their club and their alma mater purchased the real estate and built the facilities we see today. Most final clubs have existed for at least 100 years--long before much of Harvard or the house system itself was in place. Prior restrictions on guests, as well as recent, stricter policies, do not reflect final club elitism, as has been suggested in The Crimson, but instead a conscious...