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Tom Lee
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The Oh, Mama, Can this Really Be the End? Quiz
Another quiz? Well, why not? We've come a long way since the "Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz," and if we couldn't stop the
The War In the Classroom
Professors with noon classes at Harvard get used to empty seats and irritable students. Most undergraduates rarely make it to
The Radicalization of Stephen Marglin
C AMBRIDGE WILL BE a little lonelier next year for Stephen A. Marglin '59, Harvard's only tenured radical economist. Arthur
A Guide to the Good Life
WOODS HOLE--Most students who get to Harvard know how to get A's. The route to a summa is grueling but
The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz
The reading period quiz is a little premature this term, but so was Joyce Maynard's autobiography. She's off in the
Freud Shows His Slip
D ON'T ASK your analyst about the ironies of the psychoanalytic movement. The aura of authority in sheepskin diplomas and
The Guess-What's-Just-Around-the-Corner Quiz
Traditionally, The Crimson has provided a reading period Oldies Quiz. As an austerity measure, this service was cut back this
A Newsman's Nightmares
V OYEURS EN VOYANT, necrophiles, mystical wizards, and a comparatively sane alchemist--these are the creatures that roam Les Whitten's fantasy
No Man Is a Vineyard
M ARTHA'S VINEYARD is, above all, an island, and to the 8000 small-town folk who live there year round, it
The Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz
The Crimson used to have a semi-annual Oldies Quiz. It would have been easy popular to do another one, but
Get Going
Y OU'VE HEARD it before--Europe is overrated. The Eiffel Tower? It's rusty. The canals of Venice? They smell like sewers.
Peter Gomes: Different Strokes at Memorial Church
A GOOD PREACHER gives himself away by his voice. His days are long and his duties unending, and laymen hang
Who Is This Confucius and Why Are They Saying These Terrible Things About Him?
A DEAF COMPOSER from the 1800s and a sage from 25 centuries ago seem strangely inoffensive targets for the Chinese,
The Musical Fruit
K EPT ALIVE by a strict diet of cool mountain water and stuffed cabbages, the sorely missed 2000 year-old man
White Lightening
C AN AN ALBINO sing the blues? "Yeeeeaaaahhhh!" screams Edgar Winter, whitest of rock stars. And in his bizarre assault
