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Excerpt: “By establishing a close correlation between such disparate Southern Renaissance writers as Faulkner and O’Connor we can begin to appreciate the power of the ‘old child’s’ significance. This [...] motif merits our closer examination??first because it is a figure which recurs throughout the literature of this period and second, because the ‘old child’ represents these Southern Renaissance writers need to dramatize the bitter argument that rages within them...

Author: By George T. Fournier and James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Famous People and Their Theses | 6/3/2010 | See Source »

...they didn’t have the time to acquire this knowledge,” says Classics assistant professor Francesca Schironi. “You can’t read Pindar nonstop with two years of Greek.”Doing poorly in the six-hour general examination??which consists of sight translations and analyses of passages from writers ranging from Terence to Herodotus—can jeopardize Classics concentrators’ chances of receiving honors and even graduating.But the sort of broad-based, survey knowledge that the generals were intended to encourage won?...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concentrations Revamp Requirements | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Rather, we all need a sober self-examination??remember that much of the increased pressure for tailgate restrictions started when some idiotic Harvard students almost drank themselves to death—and an increased willingness to organize and improvise in the face of an indifferent administration and a hostile City of Boston. The administration has certainly been put in a tough spot by the hard-nosed BPD, which bears most of the responsibility for the new rules. Yet I find it exceedingly hard to believe that the wealthiest and most powerful university in the world couldn?...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: The Worst Tailgate Ever? | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...sperm bank. You’re healthy enough, you’re smart enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination??is that there is a strong element of raw male ego within the process...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping for Sperm: Nobel Prizes Wanted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination??he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Native American Denied Posthumous Diploma | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

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