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This sanctification of labor permeates Lamont, where Harvard students, hounded by the insatiable need to stay busy enough to deserve their privileged place in the modern meritocracy, combat fears of inadequacy through righteous striving. In the library’s confines, undergrads complain about work even when they have none, as if terrified by the prospect of idleness. For, as Max C. E. Weber wrote, in capitalist society, the waste of time is “the first and in principle the deadliest of sins...
...Dudley students are anything and everything but typical,” stated the 50th anniversary letter. “While members of other Houses come directly from the yard dorms and stay for three years, our students come from the surrounding Boston area, other Houses, other universities, and time-off from Harvard. Some are married and many are graduate students...
...stay at hotels selected on the basis of whether there’s a great run,” Lee says. “I stay at the Pierre in New York because you can go right into the park, I stay at the Willard in D.C. because you can go to the mall, and I had this hotel in Amsterdam called the Amstel because I can go out and hit the canals...
This system, Simmons says, explains Cambridge’s ability to stay afloat for so long while it chooses a permanent captain...
...Coach [Amaker] always says, ‘Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready,’” Casey said. “So I just stepped in and did what I was supposed...