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...popular Core, Lit and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great.” Naturally, the grinning Macedonian first-year cites an interest in the history of his homeland as a reason for enrolling in the class, but his major incentive comes from another well-worn Harvard resource. Says Veljkovik, “According to the CUE Guide, it’s supposed to be easy...
...Helen Carnegie Bobbsey ’04. Hotchkiss and Bobbsey arrived at the Rhode Island chapel only to make the awkward discovery that they were the only invited guests. Said Bobbsey, “Had I known I was going to be the maid of honor, I would have worn different shoes...
...bell tower proper: four singles and a regal common room with well-worn dance floor and bar. This year, the suite connects to eight other singles and two common rooms...
...University in this Cambridge, instead, can offer us only weedy looking patches, worn at the edges by overworked students cutting corners to get to section on time. Those corners, and the dirt in between them, are not the symbol of power and beauty they could be. Think of the symbolism exuding from thriving, refulgent green spaces: vigour, growth, abundance, fertility! The image projected currently around the abodes of the new students is of life taking root only with trouble, of impeded growth on barren soil. Hardly encouraging for an impressionable class of first-years...
Imagine a big sale at Nieman Marcus. Then imagine that the clothes have already been worn. That’s the gist of Second Time Around—an upscale consignment shop with branches in Boston and Cambridge carrying hot labels such as Seven (khakis, $72), Chaiken and Trina Turk. Passing under the radar of most Harvard students, the Cambridge store is a bargain shopper’s dream. Snag hot Diesel jeans for $52 and peruse the racks of upscale pants, skirts and blouses (all of which retailed for over $200). Both this and the Newbury store occasionally...