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...nineteenth century, when sheet music was the closest thing to “Shuffle Play,” some recognized the dangers of information overload: Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit?? A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment for us all to pause and reflect upon the gadgets that rule our lives. After all, combining our highly...
...Harvard veterans—Bok, 76, was president for two decades, and Knowles, 71, led FAS for 11 years.During his tenure as dean, Knowles stressed fiscal discipline and placed increasing emphasis on growing the size of the Faculty. The Oxford-educated scientist is also renowned for his dry wit??which, even after 33 years at Harvard, Knowles still delivers in a refined British accent.Accepting Bok’s appointment in a letter to colleagues on Monday, Knowles began: “In the light of his own generous decision, it was, of course, impossible for me to look...
During his tenure as dean, Knowles stressed fiscal discipline and placed increasing emphasis on growing the size of the Faculty. The Oxford-educated scientist is also renowned for his dry wit??which, even after 33 years at Harvard, Knowles still delivers in a refined British accent...
Whenever a Tom Stoppard play is produced, expectations are high. Stoppard is easily the world’s greatest living playwright, but his plays are full of obscure allusions, endless crescendos of jokes and sophisticated wit??and none of these are easy things for a production to pull off. So it was heartening to see Harvard students rise to the challenge of staging Stoppard this weekend, as the Winthrop House Drama Society staged his masterpiece The Real Thing in the Winthrop...
...presidential candidacy, as he failed to secure one of the final spots. It seems that Craaps’s promise to host the first senior bar at the Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirmed—an event titled “Boozin’ wit?? da Biddies”—and to schedule a lesbian midget ultimate fighting cage match (to the death) in lieu of a class day speaker didn’t resonate with voters. When asked to comment on the outcome of the elections, Craaps furiously flipped his feather...