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I love Harvard history and tradition. But I’d rather not live in an anachronism of a house. My best friend at Yale inhabits a spacious single, in the oldest college, with hardwood floors and window seats. I’ve always lived in oddly shaped, tiny walkthroughs...
Harvard-Yale is a grand and rightly celebrated tradition, even with its attendant, although equally-cherished, excesses. Such a shame, though, that merely a weekend each year is the only time when most students will bother to acknowledge their place in the long line of Harvard history.
Founded in 1636, our University abounds with history and tradition. We ought not allow the ascendant academic prejudices to rob us of this patrimony.
Yet today there is no sense of that responsibility left to students. As the Admissions Office continues to knock down barriers for previously disadvantaged demographics, the emphasis is on merit. Accordingly, with each assuming he deserves his spot by his own merit, Harvard students no longer tend to see themselves...
The same year I arrived at Harvard, Boston was transformed into a blessed city. The concept was, in some ways, challenging for a town so used to thinking of itself as cursed, but it happened nonetheless. First, the Red Sox won the World Series, the single most meaningful sports moment...