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Many undergraduates, if asked to name the Achilles' heel of the otherwise invincible Harvard experience, would bring up Harvard's dismal social life. Even Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III admits that there is "a weakness in social life" at the college. When administrators acknowledge the existence of a...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Commons for Harvard College | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

In a February interview with the Crimson, Epps maintained that the new Commons would help students meet each other and improve Harvard's social scene. He described the Loker Commons as "a planned response" to the weakness in Harvard's social life.

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Commons for Harvard College | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

"[The Commons] are a planned response to a weakness in [Harvard] social life," Epps added. "We don't think it's easy for students to meet each other."

Author: By And TODD F. braunstein, | Title: U. C. Members Worry About Commons | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

The Trio of the third movement revealed the Borromeo's only substantial weakness. When the texture of this classical work thinned to only one or two instruments, the players failed to fill the space left by the tuttis. Despite the intimacy of these solo and quasi-solo sections, the instruments...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Dynamic Barromeo is Museum Treasure | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Epps noted that the recent growth in Greek life at Harvard is a response to this weakness. The void that leads students to sororities and fraternities--small homogeneous communities--is the same one that leads students to homogeneous blocking groups and homogeneous houses. If the College seriously addresses this issue...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Diversifying With an Axe | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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