Word: sectionalism
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It’s certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This...
...close game at halftime was turned into a laugher down the stretch, prompting the entire Yale football team, clad in white home jerseys and standing throughout the game in the rabid “Dawg Pound” student section, to start a “just like football” chant...
...Bulldogs’ big second half destroyed the considerable momentum Harvard had accumulated heading into the break. After jumping out to a quick 9-0 lead, igniting the student section, Yale allowed the Crimson to reel off a 9-0 run of its own to tie it right back up, reminiscent of the game at John J. Lee two years ago when the Bulldogs used the energy of the crowd to go up 12-0 before Harvard clawed back. That game went down to the final possession, with Yale hanging on by one in a heartbreaking loss for the Crimson...
...Fashion Week is the Harvard of American runway shows: elite, innovative, and bound to produce the next big thing. Of course, Fashion Week is also graced with the presence of iconic ’80s model Fabio.Okay, fine. So maybe Fabio doesn’t attend your Core section, but in many ways, Fashion Week and the Harvard undergraduate community have a lot in common. We both exist in bubbles and set the benchmarks for our fields.New York City Fashion Week is a nine-day fashion binge featuring 221 designers, numerous celebrity sightings, and plenty of attitude. The semi-annual...
...without its forgivable flaws.The book is divided into two parts, the first centering on the lives of her ancestors as they make their way from Scotland to Canada and the second consisting of Munro’s partially fictionalized recollections of her own life. For much of the first section, Munro’s attempts to imagine, describe and fill in the details of the lives of her ancestors in Scotland’s Ettrick Valley run into the problem that most historical narratives and memoirs have to deal with: real life doesn’t proceed at all like...