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...mind continued to turn. My initial surge of pride at hearing a family member spoken of so glowingly soon transformed into a wrenching, gnawing, and painful doubt. Would I ever be spoken of in such terms? Would I ever do anything truly “great?” Upon my death would my friends return, in the twilight of their own lives, to offer me praise for deeds I had accomplished over a half century ago? What is more, would I ever again see such sincerity, such manifest sincerity and simplicity, as I did from that elderly marine...
...Harvard, and we must look no further than our classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge...
...workers,” said Daniel Mejia, a janitor in William James Hall. “In spite of being the biggest and most recognized university, there are other universities that have much better salaries than Harvard.” Members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) similarly called upon the university to meet higher standards as an employer. “As Harvard’s top employer in Cambridge, Harvard has a huge influence not only in Cambridge but also in the greater Boston area,” said Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08, a SLAM...
...Upon returning to Harvard, however, his closeness to the team has helped the new coach discover how to teach the people he had played alongside with just a few months earlier...
...initiates, signing the official Club book was the apex of social achievement. Phillips (no nickname attributed) put pen to venerated paper on Nov. 20, 1908. In her diary, she details her sensations upon completing the act: “Imagine it! To be written down with those ‘great ones’! I felt that at last I had accomplished something, I had gained a recognized place at college, it was the visible sign that meant success…it means everything...