Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...social signals that assured him there was no place like Harvard for a liberal education, has been badly shortchanged. While he will have spent $3,000 on books for his classes, he will not have bought a single work of William Shakespeare or Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great...
...Katharine and Graham will form a panel to discuss what life with the disorder is like. The Down Syndrome Awareness Seminar and Concert is intended as both an educational and uplifting event. “For people who are familiar with Down Syndrome, and for people who are completely unfamiliar,” Malcolm says, “[the concert] will open their eyes to people who are doing well and have really rich lives...
...that is the American sports culture.While chronicling all the lurid details of this extensive subject would require a senior thesis, there are several intriguing facets of this unique environment worth exploring.First, there is the overwhelming variety of sports in the American mainstream—everything from the familiar-yet-unfamiliar “soccer”, to the strange netherworlds of NASCAR racing, WWE wrestling, and lacrosse. For a British student born and bred on a diet of soccer, what is most startling is the strength of the predominant, so-called “Big Three” sports...
...pass for an undergrad as they nervously make their way through the square. But I consider the weekend a time for us college kids to reflect on how far we’ve come. It wasn’t so long ago that many of us wandered through the unfamiliar streets of Cambridge ourselves, imagining the endless possibilities of scintillating lectures, keg parties, late-night debates over Lolita in hipster coffee shops, and access to endless alcohol, or at least a really good fake ID. Of course, the reality turns out to be a little different, and it?...
...Snatch” and farm-boy “Oliver Heart,” both of whose stage names have been used in lieu of their real names for this article to protect their privacy. Consistent with the drag tradition, their performances offered a departure from gender normativity perhaps unfamiliar to the average Harvard undergraduate. But as Johnny Blazes, the night’s iridescently-clad MC, noted afterward, many attendees seemed uncomfortable with the hands-on nature of drag, or at least unsure of what to expect. “At bars I work for tips, but at college...