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...answer to the secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind”) is pretty straightforward: Enter to expand your knowledge of useless trivia. Depart to better promote the wonders of this University to the world. Seriously, this place owes one a stipend as a tour guide...
Apparently unsatisfied with 141 years worth of their own tradition and two millennia of Catholic tradition, Boston College (BC) has formed a “Student Tradition Task Force” charged with devising additional useless rituals. Perhaps BC can take a page or two from Harvard, that venerable old repository of pointless and counterproductive traditions. A few suggestions...
...museum, it becomes art. I myself have got a lovely piece sticky-gummed to the wall above my bed. It’s a big map of the Grand Canyon—a satellite photograph with roads and cities superimposed in enhanced colors. It would be completely useless as a navigational tool, but it’s really nice to look at. I guess it’s a cross between abstract and conceptual...
...been hit-and-miss for a few years—School of Rock aside, Tape underwhelmed me, and all that Waking Life had going for it was innovative presentation (there’s that dubious “I” word again) and enough aimless, useless philosophizing to fill a semester of Moral Reasoning lectures—but I am very pumped for the Ethan/Julie reunion. It’s the next best thing to the Brief Encounter sequel that we never...
...those not so inexplicably enamored of travel-sized toiletries (of which the Mass Ave. CVS has an admirable selection) and their ilk but still looking to burn a hole in their pockets, Harvard Square luckily also seems to specialize in entirely useless stores designed purely to sell, well, things of various sorts to newly-flush students. Think entire parts of said “gift shops” devoted to toys that look like assorted Japanese foods, fluorescent-colored hosiery and pasta in naughty shapes, and you’ll get a reasonably accurate picture of what one might...