Word: harvardians
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...tour guide for Unofficial Tours, Inc., the saavy Harvardian could earn $12 per hour. As a tour guide for the Crimson Key Society, students work for free. In exchange, though, they receive perks as valuable as unsought dating advice, marriage proposals, and international travel. Though the Crimson Key Society’s policy prohibits soliciting tips, that doesn’t prevent some fortunate Keysters from scoring cash, gifts, and the occasional experience of a lifetime. Perhaps the luckiest tour guide is Jason B. McCoy ’08. He gave a tour to a group from the SIAS University...
...description is often cutely evocative—“I missed the rutted brick streets of Harvard Square, where my heels stuck between the stones and my boots slid out from under me in slushy weather.” Or sometimes playfully displays a sense of self-reflexive Harvardian irony—“Next to me, I could hear orange blazer man drawling, ‘An ironic reconstruction of an iconic representation…’ All the I’s and R’s blurred in my ears into one general buzz...
They’re not the only Harvardian heads of state. French President Jacques Chirac attended Summer School here in 1953, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe earned a certificate in administration and management from the Harvard Extension School in 1993. (And President Bush, though a dyed-in-the-blue Yalie, is a 1975 Harvard Business School alum...
...Look like less of an idiot in snobby political discussions. 2) Prep you for those awkward moments when you fumble around for the date of D-Day (it’s June 6, 1944, you fool!). 3) Help you make that witty, bantering, sophisticated small talk that the seasoned Harvardian is expected to make. While the proclaimed purpose of the Historical Study A Core maybe be to train the uncouth species known as the Harvard science concentrator to grasp the “background and development of major issues of the contemporary world,” just remember that...
...singularly unsuccessful in getting us first-row places at the large open-air concerts held in Paris over the summer. Nightclubs and first-class travel compartments are similarly indifferent to the enthusiastic words of the Center for European Studies’ executive director. More importantly, to participate in this Harvardian opportunity, one must be able to take pleasure in the gloriously pompous and refined traditions of France, such as the subtle art of formal letter-writing and the oligarchic conviction that true science can only be accomplished within damask walls and under frescoed vaults. It is preferable also to hold...