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IRBs are coming under increasing criticism inside the ivory tower, with professors blaming the groups for stifling academic freedom in order to follow overly rigid rules that claim to protect human research subjects. Medical School professor Edward Greg Koski ’71, former director of the federal office that oversees IRBs, said: “In the ‘cover your ass’ mentality that has developed over the last decade, we’re now in a situation where IRBs do really foolish, stupid things in the name of protecting human subjects but really to cover...
...know.LEVERETT: Leverett is famous for its 80s dance, its physics-related study breaks, and not much else. A nice dining hall (often filled with DeWolves at mealtimes) and comfortable digs make Leverett a fine, if inconspicuous, place to spend three years.LOWELL: Ah, Lowell. So pretty—that bell tower, those chandeliers! So shitty—the rooms, so poorly laid-out as to be almost laughable, are among the worst on the River. The themed Stein Clubs are an acquired taste, but House pride is strong and the students love their masters.MATHER: Mather is fugly, inside...
...faced the foul odor of a sewage leak. On Friday afternoon, one of the House’s primary draining pumps shut down, causing a build-up of pressure that burst a sewage pipe in the House’s Lower Main hallway. Since the hall links all resident towers to the dining hall and to the House’s main entrance, the sewage puddle cut residents of Daniels Tower off from their rooms, and forced Currier residents to head to other dining halls for dinner. House Co-Master Joseph L. Badaracco said that he was informed at around...
...sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government, and Harvard have paved the way for the bells’ rightful return. Despite the fact that the Lowell bells have become a part of Harvard’s rich...
Ultimately, although students tend to view our ivory tower as one of a few lonely secular outposts in a vast wilderness of religious ignorance, this indulgent, self-laudatory narrative is mistaken. Likewise, modish militant atheism (Richard Dawkins and the like) misses the mark; shrill, self-righteous atheism may be sexy—oh so radical, sure to infuriate the parents—but it’s like kicking a dying horse. In retrospect, talk of a new 20th-century great awakening will be seen as the last gasp of a bygone era, as the Americans catch up with...