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...have the fraternities here. It’s much more low-key. At University of Minnesota, they have frat row, and everyone knows that’s where the partiers are. But seriously, I actually thought that you all here were paying so much money and you were so studious that partying didn’t go on, but like I said I was happily proven otherwise...
Regardless of your politics—and I myself am to the left of Mansfield on many issues—this spirit of debate should be considered a treat, and, sadly, an unusual one. At Yale, the president and his administration have a studious policy of avoiding argument at all costs, instead speaking about important issues—like labor strife and town/gown relations—through press agents and lawyers...
Timperi, too, said he has “thoroughly enjoyed” his time at Harvard, working alongside faculty and students he described as “knowledgeable, studious, intellectually challenging and supportive...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has spent the last three years searching for the right gimmick to make people take his academic vision seriously. A supporting role as Jafar’s less nefarious, more studious half-brother in the next straight-to-video Aladdin sequel might be just the trick...
Sannwald, a Lutheran pastor and an authority on German theology, was drafted into the German army in 1942. He was a studious and determined pupil of some of the greatest minds in theology when he left Harvard for Germany in 1925. He most likely died a lonely death on the Russian front in 1943, far from his five children and his wife in Stuttgart, and far from the university that had fostered his brilliance. As we approach a day meant to revere soldiers, the complicity in fascism of one of Harvard’s fallen remains a mystery...