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...Opposed to him we find a Machiavellian younger professor, Dr. Irwin, hired by the administration to get the students into the elite institutions. Irwin seeks to avoid clichés and trite essays, emphasizing that the “old ways?? produce only “dull” essays. History (and academia, for that matter) is nowadays “entertainment,” where “facts are just the beginning,” according to Irwin...
...never officially promised them that the University will be a refuge from discrimination. The heritage of Harvard is its greatest strength, but also one of its mightiest flaws. The past year has shown once more that the University can use the resource of its great past in two ways??to uphold the values that should always exist here, or to nourish the forces of reaction and conservatism that have sometimes triumphed. In the early winter, when President Bok decided that Harvard would not enter as a commercial competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed...
...Fair Harvard” (the University hymn is one bridge too far), we’d be in trouble. The real spirit of undergraduate life can be found in our students’ restless pursuit of excellence and innovation, in hundreds of different and not always intersecting ways??from the seminar room to the laboratory to the cramped, creative corridors where students stay up all night to put this newspaper...
...committee members expressed concern that RKM’s question choice—one asked parents if they had heard about the Montessori teaching method—might have influenced the survey results. “After you ask if you’ve heard about Montessori, in many ways??you have what I call a very leading question,” said School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80. Despite their reservations about the results of the survey, committee members praised the Montessori program for encouraging a sense of independence and a connection...
Surely, it’s important for students to respect the residents of Cambridge and try to reduce late night noise, but this respect should go both ways??we’re residents too. Cantabrigians might cut us some slack. You should expect some nocturnal sound in a college town, and we’re far from rioting in the streets...