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...find a literary map of Cambridge, highlighting spots like Weeks Footbridge—the site of Quentin Compson’s suicide in The Sound and the Fury, (Faulkner wrote that Harvard was a place “where the best of thought clings like dead ivy vines upon old dead brick”). Alongside it stands a display on Harvard’s poets, which chronicles the lives of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Stevens, and reveals that Gertrude Stein did not, in spite of the popular myth, receive an “A” for writing that...
...best parts of Harvard were the wonderful intellectual conversations that you would have. So far, I have yet to have any of these wonderful intellectual conversations, but I take comfort in the knowledge that the people I spend most of my time making cat noises with could, if called upon, discuss Nietzsche intelligently...
...live with as though for the first time. Literature shakes us from our sleepwalker’s daze. It is like discovering that your roommate of many years is not only hot, but also has loved you this whole time. Study literature. Study it like your life depends upon it—because, in this wordy young century, it does...
...Upon graduating high school, Ahmed and Morton went their separate ways—Ahmed to Harvard and Morton to the University of Maine. Morton said that the two would see each other about twice per month, traveling by a bus that ran conveniently from South Station to the University of Maine campus. “For all the business we gave them, Concord Trailways should thank us,” Morton laughed...
...Harvard class of 2010: Congratulations on a wonderful achievement. As you reach this milestone, it is fascinating to reflect upon how dramatically the world has changed in just your lifetimes. There have been changes that even the smartest professors that I had at Harvard could not have predicted...