Articles tagged with: harvard

By   |   October 24th 2011

The Game is now less than 26 days away. The City is 80.8 miles away. The Bandit is Burt Reynolds’s best role. Try The Grouper, it’s great!
Why is it that these things deserve such capitalization? What makes these particular items standout from the category to which they belong in such a way that they claim …

By   |   March 3rd 2011

News reports say that Harvard President Drew Faust will sign an agreement tomorrow that formally recognizes and funds the Naval ROTC on Harvard’s campus for the first time since the Vietnam War. Harvard, like Yale and other Ivies and universities, had stopped the ROTC program because of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Now that Obama has …

By   |   February 21st 2011

In an article published yesterday on The Daily Beast, Nick Summers, a senior writer for The Daily Beast and its recent merger partner Newsweek, takes on two behemoth institutions–Harvard and Hollywood.
According to Summers, Harvard’s final clubs–the 8 elite, clandestine institutions that Mark Zuckerberg battles in the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network–are feeling threatened by the …

By   |   January 26th 2011

It’s time to pick spring classes at Harvard, and Flyby–”your more-than-daily source for Harvard news, gossip, and oddities”–or the Bullblog of the Harvard Crimson, is doing for Harvard students the opposite of what the Bullblog did for you: trying to make them …

By   |   January 20th 2011

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Really it just depended on how you did in lotteries, whether professors sympathized with or were turned off by your pathetic emails, and if you slipped on the unsalted ice on your scamper between overlapping classes. As shopping period and that adrenaline rush …

By   |   November 17th 2010

We’ve been trying to figure out exactly why Harvard sucks forever. Is it their inferior “house” system? Their stupid finals clubs? Their imaginary mascot? Their utter lameness? Travis, a high school student from “Steamboat Springs, Venezuela” has figured it out. If you can make it through his endless ramblings about “the news” you may be …

By   |   October 20th 2010

What’s a Harvard man, especially a political one, without the Harvard Club? Eliot Spitzer’s application to the Harvard Club of New York has been rejected, according to the New York Times. According to his spokesperson, “Last year, Harvard asked Eliot to speak on ethics* at the school. He supports the institution financially. It would seem …

By   |   April 15th 2010

On Monday the Daily Beast posted a list of America’s happiest colleges, ranked according to factors like freshman retention rate, campus dining and percentage of sunny days. Yale made a respectable appearance at #9. Harvard, inexplicably, was #2.

By   |   December 18th 2009

GoodCrushYale with less sex, duh.

By   |   December 1st 2009

Harvard, cookie monster attempt sabotage.

By   |   November 18th 2009

Now that we know all their secrets, do you think we can win?

By   |   November 18th 2009

Chillin’ with the Cantabs.

By   |   November 3rd 2009

Rankings based entirely on attractiveness (or on information about sexual health… whatever.)

By   |   October 31st 2009

I once heard of someone at Columbia writing his senior thesis on “The Wire,” and I wasn’t surprised—shit is rich.

By   |   October 8th 2009

While we at Bullblog HQ eat mostly Greek yogurt for breakfast, we can understand that others like a good bacon and egg before ec 10. Our hearts go out to Harvard.

By   |   October 6th 2009

Round 1: Most Dangerous College. Round 2: Smartest City.

By   |   October 5th 2009

The Harvard Crimson wants you to know that, even though their endowment fell a shit-ton over the last year or so, it’s still bigger than Yale’s ever was to begin with.

By   |   September 21st 2009

The Daily Beast analyzed the crime rates of over 4,000 universities in America, and — surprise, surprise — Harvard and Yale came out on top.

By   |   September 12th 2009

I parked my cow at Harvard Yard.

By   |   September 12th 2009

Yale always seems to come in just behind Harvard and Princeton—which makes sense, in a way, as long as we lack a quantitative measure of the SOUL and HEART of a group of people.