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...concern for today’s undergraduate. Thanks to wondrous advances in the field of grade inflation, the “average” Harvard student will graduate with at least a 3.0 and, in many cases, will do so without straining any cerebral muscles in the process. The Gentleman??s C of yesteryear has become the Gentleperson’s A-/B+ of this generation. Sadly for academic purists and happily for the rest of us, the “[s]ystem” is no longer worthy of capitalization and no longer something to be feared...
...nexus of frat-party boozing and gentleman??s club cigar-smoking lie the finals clubs, a perennial challenge for feminists...
According to an article in the Boston Globe, this hiring may have broken something of a gentleman??s agreement between Harvard and MIT not to hire prominent faculty away from each other...
Claverly 9 has the aura of a smoking room, or a gentleman??s club from long ago. It’s called the “library” because of the beautiful dark-wood bookcases built into the wall of the common room. It also boasts massive windows nearly twice the height of its occupants, Eugene M. Simuni ’04, who is also a Crimson editor, and Boris Gokhfeld ’04. The two are Lowell affiliates but Gokhfeld is adamant that their room is “a lot nicer than anything...
...atmosphere at Harvard. Yet the sad truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman??s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would assume that Harvard demanded constant academic brilliance in order to remain within its exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once and for all: You do not need to work...