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Life Without Mr. Chips
The undergraduate had heard the myths of Harvard education long before he applied: that he'd never get to know a real, live professor; that he'd be taught by graduate students; that he wouldn't get the personal attention he'd receive at a smaller school …
Dean Knowles on Teaching Fellows
The undergraduate spoke with Jeremy Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, about the decision this spring to make modifications in the appointment of teaching fellows. According to Knowles: "The discussion began with a concern about the …
Hollow at the Core
During shopping week this spring , the undergraduate visited all of the offerings for Historical Studies B listed in Courses of Instruction —six classes, ranging from "The Emergence of a Critical Movement in Law" to "The English Revolution" to "The …
"Harvard" Square
In search of caffeine for an all-night rendezvous with a term paper, the undergraduate passed Elsie's Famous Sandwiches, where he noted an unusually dark interior and a handwritten sign taped to the door. After 39 years in business Elsie's had closed, …
Punching Judy
It is an early fall evening , and men in crisp, white shirts walk briskly down Mt. Auburn Street in small groups, chatting quietly, loafers clicking against the brick sidewalk. Blue blazers and neckties flap in the breeze. The sight is an uncommon one at …
Communities We Choose
As he walked to Phillips Brooks House's annual plant sale, the undergraduate paused at a newfound clearing in the Yard canopy, before a recently renovated Holworthy Hall. He thought back to how that end of the Yard had looked during his own first year in …
Playing the Fields
This fall's edition of Courses of Instruction lists 943 new choices, some renamed, some renumbered, but most basically new. The tally includes thirteen new Core offerings (and a new approach to fine arts), seven new courses in Harvard's youngest …
After Harvard, What?
Just as British gentlemen in the nineteenth century divided themselves among the four professions, the majority of graduating Harvard seniors pursue one of four fields. Roughly 60 percent of Harvard students know by the time they graduate that they want …
Harvard on the Rocks
Away from the dancing and music in the common room, past the keg of beer in the crowded bathroom, and down the dark hallway, six undergraduates sit cramped in a well-lit bedroom. Smoke billows as one undergraduate takes a drag and passes a joint along; …
Where Darwin Meets Doonesbury
Had T.S. Eliot '10 written a senior thesis at Harvard, he might have realized that March, not April, is the cruelest month. For the three out of five seniors who write honors theses, March is the period of greatest stimulus and stress. Most seniors have …
Linguistics: The Sound & the Fury
The call to arms to save Harvard's linguistics department seemed to evoke a furor among linguists everywhere. Jeremy Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was bombarded with protesting letters. "I can't believe all the noise that has been …
Business Unusual
The last time the Harvard Business School talked about building a chapel, local wags assert, was 1929—a line usually delivered with a nervous chuckle. While the value of the school's recently completed chapel as an economic indicator might be debated, it …
Out of Little Acorns
For most of this century, seniors have been bidding farewell to the College by putting cash gifts in its coffers. Alumni bear a significant portion of Harvard's funding burden: donations help keep up facilities, pay salaries, and guarantee need-blind …
ROTC, Up Close and Personal
Ask a Harvard student what comes to mind when he or she thinks of ROTC and the response is likely to be negative. A focus of anti-Vietnam War protest in the sixties and of the gay rights movement in the eighties and nineties, ROTC (Reserve Officers …
The Party Is Dead; Long Live the Party
The undergraduate could scarcely believe his eyes. He looked at his watch to make sure it was in fact Saturday night. It was. He looked around to make sure he was really in Pennypacker Hall. He was. He looked high and low for a party. There was none to be …