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Studying abroad in Delhi for the fall semester of my junior year, I got to see from an outsider’s point of view the status-seeking competition of a top university. My host institution, St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, is known as one of India’s most rigorous and prestigious non-technical schools. Seats not reserved for lower castes or other minorities often go to representatives of the North Indian urban elite who master the competitive entrance examination process...
...What is surprising is to see all your classmates,” Donald T. Wesling ’60 said. “They were unlined, gorgeous, lithe 18-year-olds. They’re recognizably the same people, but they have changed in their appearances so much...
Gordon said that in some cases he has not recognized his erstwhile acquaintances. At lunch, he sat next to a man who lived two rooms away from him in Matthews Hall during their freshman year, but neither remembered the other...
When I had the signal opportunity to chair construction of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., Harvard graduates ensured that amidst the huge ten-year controversy its construction continued without fail. Each Harvard alumnus who participated gave hundreds of hours of devotion and time. The Atlantic Monthly Editor James M. Fallows ’70, a former President of The Harvard Crimson, in two hours wrote and placed an op-ed in the Washington Post to blow the whistle on an egregious move by opponents of the design. People with connections to Harvard were numerous among those...
...mention childhood obesity. All because you seniors refuse to engage in human sacrifice. Are there any limits to the pain you have caused? Yes—I am not saying you are the ones responsible for making health care a pain in the butt to pass this year. Yale is responsible for that. But I am saying one of you must be a first-class sexual pervert because Providence has truly smitten...