Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...History Department first began requiring the History 10 a/b sequence of its concentrators about five years ago. The goal, according to Professor of History and Head Tutor James Hankins, was to create "something foundational to provide a common frame of reference and to allow for more sophistication [in] higher-level courses...
Some calls lead to extended and cordial conversations. I have often talked to an English Department member at a small Georgia college who somehow lacked the pretensions of his opposite number at Harvard. He and I (an English major) found ourselves to have many interests in common and he actually invited me to come visit...
Richard Griffin '51 is a member of the Quincy House Senior Common Room...
...story began too early on a Sunday morning, as an unwitting Harvard undergrad staggered from her room into the light. With eyes squinting at the glare she acknowledged her roommate and moved on, then looked up and realized that the blonde person standing in her common room was not her roommate. In fact she had never seen the girl before in her life. "Hi, I'm Maggie, Celeste's friend from home." The poor undergrad searched her memory and found remnants of a conversation with Celeste about a girl who had invited herself for a three-day weekend...
...cheered. Nora C. Cheng '02, one of the unwilling hostesses, rejoiced, "Thank God almighty I'm free at last!" What would occasion such evangelical language? A nightmare guest the likes of which none of the traumatized girls had previously seen. A guest who brought weird boys to their common room, went through their books, answered their phone, hooked up with four guys in two nights and asked to try on their clothes, was gone. They had tried to be nice and then settled for being civil after Maggie made a point of showing off her body, pointing out that...