Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Finals Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish, intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure guarantee of The Big Coin after graduation. About a third of the way through it hits you: you flip to the picture on the back jacket and, with his brow ridge and prognathous jaw and small cranial capacity--that's where you've seen him before! National Geographic...
...FUNNY thing about Harvard. Just when you think you finally understand how much the Harvard image is exploited in American mythology, the sheer power of the myth reveals itself in yet another way. Just when you think you've finally seen it all--The Paper Chase as a T.V. show--John LeBoutillier '76 turns up in news magazines and signing books at the Coop (even if it was only a couple of copies...
...final exam. In other words, many of the students who do well in these courses pull it off by doing nothing all semester and then spending the two-week Reading Period doing just that to prepare themselves for the exam. You can guess that this is not the ideal way to learn a subject so that you'll remember...
...your schoolwork in the rest of your life. There are plenty of students at Harvard who spend most of their days preparing for classes, in classes, or recovering from classes. Some are happy, others are not, but the rest of the world generally doesn't hear about them, either way. Then there are those who devote themselves heart and soul to some extracurricular activity
...your schoolwork in the rest of your life. There are plenty of students at Harvard who spend most of their days preparing for classes, in classes, or recovering from classes. Some are happy, others are not, but the rest of the world generally doesn't hear about them, either way. Then there are those who devote themselves heart and soul to some extracurricular activity for four years and pay only lip service to their work, cruising by with late papers, bullshit, and all-nighters before exams...