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...commencement of the Ivy season reinvigorated the team. Having had to shuffle lineups earlier in the season due to injuries and inconsistent play, Fish settled on a basic roster that worked to league perfection...
...basic platform was that we, as newcomers, could think of novel and more effective ways of convincing the administration to institute changes the students want,” Fox says. The pair ran an unorthodox and humorous campaign, which Fox said “made us appear more goofy than we intended...
...difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis—but that’s precisely the problem. We’re only expected to parrot back the basic arguments and corresponding authors that have been drummed into our heads during lectures. Doing the reading isn’t even necessary to ace midterms; omnipresent “study groups” give students a concise summary of authors and their ideas to sprinkle throughout an essay. I have...
...students are our basic reason for being in business at all. We who teach at Harvard have the privilege of a captive audience of eager, bright and intellectually engaged customers, and while we shouldn’t pander to their every fleeting taste, we do have a responsibility to give them a menu that is varied, nourishing and delicious. Our faculty egos can handle a little squeezing and sniffing, if that is the cost of just a little bit of the competition which in every other marketplace is held to improve quality. If we leave our customers with the deep...
Moulton’s mother, Lynn Moulton, said that her son spent the summer after graduation at home in Marblehead, Mass. before entering Officer Candidate School—partly in order to avoid undergoing basic training in the summer heat and partly in order to convince his parents that joining the Marines was a good idea...