Word: harvardians
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...course you had help. There are scores of disgruntled Folklore and Mythology concentrators pushing papers in investment banks. You brought them together in the most Harvardian of ways (an ice-cream social) and told them of your plan. They were only eager to oblige, and before long corporate numbers up and down Wall Street were being turned into works of folklore and mythology. Now that there essentially is no Wall Street, these people are finally free to answer their true calling: studying goblins in Ireland. They may eventually end up on welfare, but that is beside the point...
...rocks could make “real” gold. Afternoon Alchemy was a bust, and I wanted a revolution. “This is so mundane!” I shouted, slamming my backpack onto the linoleum floor of the Alchemist’s Lair. My classically pre-Harvardian outburst won me more than just scornful laughs. Instead of revolution, what I got were two weeks of isolation from my imagined comrades. And while it may have been lonely actively refraining from the plebeian trappings of the other members of Wampanoag Cabin, I know now that I most certainly...
...Another prominent Harvardian implicated in slavery was John Hancock, Class of 1754, who served as Treasurer of the University from 1773 to 1777. McDonald C. Bartels ’09, who was in Beckert’s seminar, found that one of Hancock’s business partners, James Rowe, traded slaves. Hancock donated ?554 to Harvard College...
...should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish—but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed the potential in his seemingly wasted time on ship, taking his diary and converting it to a popular narrative and plea for better shipboard conditions. After this shining example of literary advocacy, experiential learning, and cross-cultural exchange, you couldn’t just run off to sea anymore...
...suites from which to choose. Such changes to the layout will not only increase student privacy, but will also be beneficial in terms of improving handicap accessibility—something that the current River houses, which lack elevators, struggle to accommodate. In addition, it seems that the idiosyncratic Harvardian quirk of vertical entryways remains, despite the fact that it has outlived its usefulness in fostering social unity. While vertical entryways may be a characteristic feature of Harvard’s dorms, they should be scrapped in favor of more conventional horizontal hallways, which provide better opportunities for socializing among neighbors...