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...moving onto local culture and sustainability is the next step,” he said. Founded by Kramer’s father Mark, Harvard Book Store at first sold used books on JFK Street and then changed both location and merchandise. Now the book store just across from Harvard Yard sells intellectual books that could be assigned for courses but are not textbooks as well as a variety of other books and merchandise. The store still sells used books from the basement. Harvard Book Store, like many independent booksellers, competes with major operations and online retailers by inspiring customer loyalty...
...Gilman’s original intention was to describe the grandiose nature of Commencement day, a jubilee towards which many a nervous student and proud parent throng. Any surveyor of the Yard on commencement day would clearly realize that “throng” is a much more appropriate verb to describe the great masses crowding in for the historic ceremony. “Join” is a word more appropriate for the purchase of an online dating membership. When I graduate, I don’t want to merely “join” my classmates...
Axel Brugger, who will graduate from a mid-career master’s program today, said the speech reminded him of the words on the gates of Harvard Yard which read “Enter to grow in wisdom” and on the inside “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind...
After four years, I have begun to see that defining my own life by achievements or under ideological categories is a vacuous exercise. Strides we make within the Yard only matter if they break down barriers or effect change elsewhere. I do sincerely hope that a female President of Harvard will inspire girls in China and Africa to greatness or that the articles we published at The Crimson opened some eyes or encouraged administration decisions...
...meetings with the boys upstairs, both Hammonds and outgoing Interim Dean David R. Pilbeam have insisted on the decision’s lack of wisdom. Yet all signs still point to the imminent departure of some of the College’s vital organs from the centre of the Yard to across Massachusetts Avenue...