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...first-year—surely the Catholics at Harvard would be those who were informed and serious about their faiths, right? So far as I can tell, no. Harvard Catholics, even at the institutional level, never successfully challenged my false assumptions about Catholicism. While they certainly professed the Harvardian belief in diversity and practiced the Harvardian concern for social justice, they never seemed to emphasize basic Catholic concerns like salvation or even spiritual formation. If anything, their Catholicism was even less evident to me than that of Catholic Central students—even though the environment should have made their...
...ambition that got us here affects the way students look for social relationships. Last year, Crimson columnist Ross G. Douthat ’02 wrote about the social landscape here: “We are a Darwinist’s delight, superbly adapted to vanquish every competitor. In the Harvardian universe, the advantage often goes—at least in the short term—to the manipulative and dishonest and cutthroat, the people willing to backstab and lie and cheat their way upwards...
Joseph A. Scott ’05 is a sixth-generation Harvardian, the twelfth member of his family to tread these hallowed halls. His family traces its lineage to John Adams by way of the founding father’s great-great-grandaughter, who married a Scott. Though a Boston Globe article on Scott’s Adamsian roots mistakenly reported that Scott lives in Adams House, he is actually a resident of Winthrop...
...comes down to “how symbolic they may be,” I believe that the spiritual power of any saint outweighs the “charm and mystique” of that jarring symphony of clangs and clongs which weekly disturbs our hung-over Harvardian peace. Keep it to yourselves, Lowell House, for the rest of us do not share your opinion, or your taste in music...
...although Lewis would do well to look more carefully at the issues of FM that have inspired him. We like being drunk because it’s fun. We like the temporary amnesia it brings when it comes to obligations. And we like that it cures the uniquely Harvardian handicaps we face when it comes to meeting new people and making small talk...