Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going on: Convocation for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, I sat down in the back and eavesdropped. And as I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that I was one of the only people there who could judge whether the first-years were hearing the truth...
...lamented the plight of "unfortunate males" with their "delusions of adequacy," and chided The Crimson--"that fountain of infallibility, source of effable and ineffable truth [and] arguably the best campus daily"--for calling the prospect of co-education "ridiculous" in an editorial published earlier this century. He even touched on the "universal urge to merge," which drove fear into the hearts of Harvard's male administrators...
...looked for answers among the novels and poems I have read and discussed over the past few years; works filled with angst-ridden protagonists of privileged education, disillusioned but well-meaning idealists in search of greater Truth and Beauty. Were we like Quentin Compson, confused, disenchanted rowers ultimately propelled by our own heightened consciousness to a dire end (near the Weekes footbridge no less)? Or J. Alfred Prufrock (coming and going, speaking of the Michelangelo we had learned so assiduously in our Literature and Arts B class), worried about physical appearance, afraid to eat a peach? Or were we more...
...indication that the two officials may not have been telling the whole truth was that the crowd reacted with a suspicious murmur not typical of 1,000 well-educated professionals in their late...
...hint that the two officials were not telling the whole truth and the crowd reacted with a suspicious murmur not typical of 1,000 well-educated professionals in their late...