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...Harvard only gives its students two days off for Thanksgiving. While this is the longest break in the fall semester, for most, it is barely enough time to justify the cost and hassle of traveling home. A full 83 percent of the Class of 2010 hails from outside New England??roughly 58 percent live beyond the Mid-Atlantic and about nine percent are international—and for this clear majority, four days is an unreasonably short allotment of time to make it home for the holiday...
...response to this exclusion is in line with New England??s general sentiment: just pretend it’s not there...
...Sitting on 175 acres of rolling hills, the cemetery was founded in 1831 by wealthy Bostonians who sought a tranquil resting-place for the dead, and a vibrant park-ground for the, well, non-dead. Over the years, the cemetery has become the home turf for some of New England??s best and brightest, from Massachusetts senator and vocal abolitionist Charles Sumner to 19th century landscape painter Winslow Homer. But even with all those skeletons lurking below, the cemetery’s well-manicured lawns and gravestones make the place more sedate than scary. But it?...
...Boston’s numerous art galleries, many of which are, unsurprisingly, devoted to the established names and traditional styles that complement Boston’s Yankee conservatism. And yet, among the myriad galleries full of minor impressionists and themed shows on “the Seasons of New England?? are hidden some gems filled with cutting-edge art. These are innovative galleries devoted to contemporary art, featuring a new show almost every month: well worth a stop for anyone with an interest in changing trends in the art world.As if to symbolize Boston’s split...
It’s actually ridiculous how cool the new Loker—which will be called the Queen’s Head pub after John Harvard’s actual pub in England??is going to be. It’s going to be a much more social place. There will probably be some kind of student ID entrance, and the idea is you come in, hang out, get pub food, get drinks if you’re legal...it’s something the University is literally giving to us: a great casual, social, and drop...