Word: harvardians
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...dining hall is like being transported to Martha Stewart’s personal test kitchen. The pristine and spacious serving area, complete with mood lighting that makes dining hall cuisine seem gourmet, is sure to make Dunster’s red tower the new romantic destination for every hungry Harvardian. And the food—stir-fried, grilled, baked, fried, and boiled by chefs cooking with pots and pans that seem to be straight from Emeril’s set (if only they could cook the food by yelling “Bam!”) seems fresher, healthier...
...We’re very much an Irish pub compared to any other Irish pub in the area,” said Griffin, a native of Dublin. He is banking on creating an ambience that will be part Irish, part Harvardian, to distinguish Tommy Doyles from its Square competition...
Class Day is the one respite from the splendid Harvardian pretension of our graduation ceremonies. Through its undue influence, the administration has changed the nature of this important event. We look forward to Tim Russert’s address, but trust that the administration will return to Class Day its right to self-determination...
While such statements make Lithgow sound like he was a pretentious theater kid, he makes a compelling and typically Harvardian argument for the merits of his attitude. He says theater at Harvard “was pretty cliquey. There were rival camps; there was ferocious competition for slots. That’s the terrain, but also, we were cutting our teeth. You learn a lot more from that...
While the Lampoon-heavy writing staff of “The Simpsons” make generous use of Harvardian allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective...