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...because I didn’t know how to dance. And a lot of people can just be fine with that, but for me, I wanted to know something.”Intending to continue running track at Harvard, Oladehin auditioned for the Freshman Talent Show on a whim, and so found himself dancing outside of his bedroom for the first time in no less a venue than Tercentenary Theatre. “I definitely never thought I’d perform in front of that many people from the get-go,” says the Lowell House resident...
Which brings us to the primary reason to see “Ask Me Anything.” As the unfeeling, self-involved Fitzwilliam (a guy who asks Nick to bring him a pillow stuffed with “crisp fifty dollar bills” on a whim), Greaves was magnificent, bringing a kind of grand narcissistic vision to a character who would otherwise be merely petty. He was the highlight of any scene in which he was onstage, including a long scene in which he did nothing...
...Lamont Library Café, the renovation of the Mather and Dunster dining halls, and the creation of a new dance center when the old one was shut down. All of these major student life initiatives were on the brink of doom or significant delay because of the whim of one person—the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...there was one religious concept, Einstein went on to say, that science could not accept: a deity who could meddle at whim in the events of his creation. "The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God," he argued. Scientists aim to uncover the immutable laws that govern reality, and in doing so they must reject the notion that divine will, or for that matter human will, plays a role that would violate this cosmic causality...
...matter. Instead, our time is a continuation of every time before us. The great ideas that percolate today are direct descendents of the great ideas of our collective past. Therefore, Harvard College needs a general education curriculum that revolves around this past instead of blindly embracing a new transient whim...