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...executive board, which then read each script and chose a winner. Now, the comp process is broken down into stages, and writers submit additional scenes and songs with each successive cut."The old way wasn't very practical because if people didn't know the Pudding or understand the style or character balance, then it didn't work out and revisions were much more difficult," says David J. Andersson '09, Cast Vice President for the HPT.At the beginning of the comp process, writers submit a few scenes and songs. The final submission, which is made after two cuts, consists...
...become restless. “Time is money,” exclaimed Sangu J. Delle ’10 on Wednesday night, “and he owes me.” Ashia C. Wlson ’11 was baffled: “I don’t understand what we’re going to steal.” In fact, nearly everyone stuck in line late Wednesday seemed perplexed. How many would-be kleptomaniacs does Fasci think he is going to catch? Does he know that there is an electronic gate that beeps if you take...
...creativity; we commit ourselves to Harvard and all it represents in a new chapter of its distinguished history. Like a congregation at a wedding, you signify by your presence a pledge of support for this marriage of a new president to a venerable institution. As our colleagues in anthropology understand so well, rituals have meanings and purposes; they are intended to arouse emotions and channel intentions. In ritual, as the poet Thomas Lynch has written, “We act out things we cannot put into words.” But now my task is in fact to put some...
...breadth of vision we cannot find in the inevitably myopic present. We pursue them too because just as we need food and shelter to survive, just as we need jobs and seek education to better our lot, so too we as human beings search for meaning. We strive to understand who we are, where we came from, where we are going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions. But the search for meaning is a never-ending quest that is always interpreting, always interrupting...
...Veritas” in Harvard’s shield was originally intended to invoke the absolutes of divine revelation, the unassailable verities of Puritan religion. We understand it quite differently now. Truth is an aspiration, not a possession. Yet in this we—and all universities defined by the spirit of debate and free inquiry—challenge and even threaten those who would embrace unquestioned certainties. We must commit ourselves to the uncomfortable position of doubt, to the humility of always believing there is more to know, more to teach, more to understand...