<p>The Harvard Financial Aid site says that “Students whose aid applications are complete by the (April 16th) deadline will receive their award letters in late June.” We have yet to receive anything in response to our rising junior’s application. Has anyone else gotten a returning student aid award yet?</p>
<p>^^^ Correction - My wife got to it first and had already filed it.</p>
<p>Although I am not a big fan of football, this documentary <em>Harvard Beats Yale 29-29</em> made for fun viewing with our son who is home for the summer. Highly recommended. Is it just me, or do all of those Yale guys look alike?</p>
<p>Review from the <em>NY Times</em>:
[Movie</a> Review - Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 - Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19harv.html]Movie”>Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Quill Pen, as the World Cup moves into its final week, we all may continue to hear the rest of the world ask why the game of soccer - around which their lives revolve - hardly makes a blip on the screen of Americans’ sporting priorities. You may be interested to know that it all originated with the Harvard-Yale game.</p>
<p>Throughout the early 1870s, colleges in the northeast U.S. were experimenting with intercollegiate matches they called “football,” though Yale, Princeton, Rutgers and Columbia were playing soccer variants while Harvard, Tufts, and McGill played variations of rugby.</p>
<p>In 1875, in order to challenge one another, Harvard and Yale agreed to “concessionary rules” which combined elements of both sports, but notably included running with the ball and tackling. Though Harvard won the match, the Yale players and the Princeton team which had attended as spectators were both converted to the running and tackling game. This is the point at which soccer interest in the U.S. became relegated to a secondary status to ball-carrying games. It appears that as football evolved in the U.S. and England, the favored version of the game in each country earned the simple title of “football” and other versions got modifiers appended. Accordingly, England calls the FIFA game “football,” their original ball-carrying version “rugby football” and our version “gridiron football.” We call our NFL game “football” and originally called the FIFA game “Association football” since it was defined by the rules codified by The Football Association in England. “Association” got abbreviated “assoc,” and then it was a short step to condense “assoc football” to “soccer.”</p>
<p>gadad, great story. Ever since the lad was admitted to Harvard, I’ve been thinking it would be fun to read a good history of the univeristy. <em>Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University</em> focuses more on the administrations of past presidents than the more general social history I’d like to find. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>For a “light” read, you might enjoy “Harvard Yard” by William Martin. It is a mystery story centered on a lost Shakesperean manuscript, but it traces two fictional families interrelationship with Harvard over the years. I actually learned a bit about the University and had fun doing it.</p>
<p>Is Math 55 as bad as its reputation? It seems that if one takes 55, that is about all one really does freshman year.</p>
<p>[Burden</a> of Proof | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/12/6/burden-of-proof-at-1002-am/]Burden”>The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Any advice about how much storage there is in dorm rooms? In a shared room would each student have own closet and/or dresser or share? Trying to figure out how much to bring?</p>
<p>They might need to share closets but each will have a dresser.</p>
<p>Hat, the Harvard Coop had a whole book rack devoted to William Martin paperbacks, including <em>Harvard Yard</em>. It looks like a good one to read soon.</p>
<p>I believe Harvard provides a closer (or in rare cases, an armoire) for each student.</p>
<p>In some small freshman rooms, 2 people share a tiny (like 16" wide) closet fitting about ten hangars per person. You can buy over the door flat metal hooks to increase hanging capacity. Under the bed storage becomes crucial.</p>
<p>^ My daughter had a closet like that freshman year. She bought plastic drawers at Target (Sterilite) which were good for storing additional clothing.</p>
<p>your kid may be put in a quad-2 small rooms and one bigger one where all put their desks; only room for bunk beds so very little room for even under bed storage; share a built in wardrobe; they get a desk, dresser and book case. Somehow with such a crammed space-there was room for a couch!</p>
<p>D had the two bedrooms and study room setup. The girls elected to make the smaller bedroom a walk-in closet and put two sets of bunks in the bigger bedroom.</p>
<p>The rocker desk chair more than makes up for the lack of closet space!</p>
<p>^ except for when you are trying to stand on it to hang up a picture</p>
<p>Sewhappy - did your student really hang their clothes on the desk chair? How many hangers could a desk chair hold? :)</p>
<p>^ Hangers? Who uses hangers? ;)</p>