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...Still, the orphanage staff prepared him as best they could: They packed a small box with two sets of clothes for him to take, and his favorite toys, especially a small plastic piano. They also taught him a few phrases of English "How are you?" and "What's your name...
...Spartan boy is bred to militarism. He's taken from his mother and, as the movie says, is "thrown into a world of unspeakable cruelty" (or, as the English call it, boarding school). Spartans are the tough guys, the bully boys, the warrior class, fighting and dying for other Greeks who may lack their mettle. Leonidas chides the Athenians as "those philosophers and boy-lovers...
Writing is a fundamental skill both in and after college. All Harvard degree-holders—not just English concentrators—should be able to express themselves logically and clearly. It is healthy for the College, then, to evaluate itself from time to time in order to ensure that writing is being taught effectively...
...Last Friday, Bulgarians and their friends came together in Boylston Hall for an Harvard-style Sedianka. It was your typical college party but with less booze and more traditional meat dishes from the old country. Harvard and MIT students alike exchanged handmade yarn dolls and traded in their English names for questionable Bulgarian renditions. But the cultural shindig didn’t really get going until the Bulgarians hit the dance floor. Kaloyan S. Slavov ’07 led a line of experienced Bulgarians and painfully clueless amateurs to the center of the room. In a form somewhat reminiscent...
...President-elect Faust is moving forward—mercifully—furiously on selecting the next dean,” said Knowles, who is expected to step down from his interim post June 30.Committee members have declined to comment on their work advising the incoming president, although English Department Chair James Engell ’73 said that they have a schedule in place to confer with Faust.Knowles said he looks forward to the forthcoming appointment of a “younger and more vigorous dean.”The 10 search committee members are Engell, Coolidge Professor of History...