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...community and its students. By responding to the seniors’ long list of suggestions with a cursory agreement to keep one new event, while simultaneously undermining other aspects of Quincy’s new-found community, Kirshner has yet again demonstrated that he does not understand what students value...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau and Melissa Quino mccreery | Title: The Change in Quincy House | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...Don’t get me wrong; as anyone would expect, Harvard students learn a lot of facts, concepts, and even “approaches to knowledge” that the Core tries, usually painfully, to impart. After four years at the College, I understand most of economics, can hold my own in discussions on medieval literature, and discourse on various theories of justice...

Author: By Nicholas A Molina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Failure of Success | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...found that I could write 24 pages in under 24 hours and still do well. I learned that a lot of the education you get at college happens outside the classroom. And I learned how to deal with failure, even if most Harvard students don’t understand the meaning of that word until reaching adulthood...

Author: By Nicholas A Molina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Failure of Success | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...Eighteen years of a lack of failure teaches Harvard students to avoid it at all costs; we become extremely risk-averse. Ironically, classes might teach about the risk-reward relationship, but students who are too afraid to fail can only understand the former part of that relationship after experiencing...

Author: By Nicholas A Molina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Failure of Success | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...would be in a better position to think about and understand what it means?” Fitzsimmons asked in an interview last week...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Two Old Men in a Hurry | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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