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Anything Can Happen

But that doesn’t make it good.

By Abigail K. Fiedler

“Is PSETs a class?”

Arts and Humanities Administrator

Year in Fake Headlines

All the news that wasn’t fit to print and then some.

By Libby R. Coleman and Nicole J. Levin

Class of 2014 vs. Game of 2048

By Deniz Cataltepe and S. Levi Spickler

“Everything you said is true, plus what I said.”

Literature professor on alternative interpretations

Buy-Hold-Sell

The Crimson’s first business section.

By Marina M. Molarsky-Beck

Harvard Alumni We Want To Donate a Building

Yes, we did search profanities in the alumni directory.

By FM Staff

The End Is The Beginning Is The End

Evelynn Hammonds, who was dean of the college
Interim Dean of the College Donald H. Pfister, who is in the Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Andrew Berry, who is married to a Harvard faculty member
Tom Conley, who was born in New Haven, Conn.
Larry Summers, who left his job after a controversy

As is →

“Let’s just take the obscure and explain it in terms of the unintelligible.”

Philosophy TF

6 Reasons for the Tuition Increase

Where did all the money go? FM looks into it.

By Joshua A. Goldstein and Eloise A. Lynton

Best of: House Listservs

Turns out that you don’t need to search someone’s email, all you need is a house list.

By Olivia M. Munk

This Year in Ethical Reasoning

Your ethical reasoning requirements for the year.

By Maia R. Silber

Around Town

Year in Overheard Quotes

Yes, we were listening.

By Colton A. Valentine

“Genocide is a crime under international law, which the civilized world condemns.”

History Professor making an egregious modification error

Two True Things

I.The Philosophy department considered making sections smaller this year.

II.If a philosophy student doesn’t talk in a 20 person class, does he still have a sense of self? No.

Lessons Learned from HUPD

Is that a weapon? No, just an instrument.

By Eloise A. Lynton and Daniel J. Hilhorst

“And people think literary theory is not influential.”

Literature preceptor on HUDS “Deconstructed Chicken Kabobs”

Just the Tip

Where FM’s graduating class gives some advice, which we ignore.

By Zach T. Osborn, Rebecca F. Elliott, Leslie B. Arffa, Andrew A. White, Victoria A. Baena, Ginny C. Fahs, Delphine Rodrik, Kevin Sun, and Noah B. Pisner

Party Scorecard

“I always go to the bibliography first to see if I'm included… and if not I close the book.”

Literature Professor

In Memoriam

Tommy Doyle’s will be missed.

By Bailey M. Trela and Zara B. Sternberg

The Changing Face of Harvard Square

“Have a cookie—think about coming to lecture often.”

Desperate History TF in Section

Inflation

We give this article an A+ and 50 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

By Amy L. Weiss-Meyer

Conversations

After Acceptance: The First-Generation Student Experience

Paving a new legacy at Harvard.

By Victoria A. Baena

Fifty Years of Alan Dershowitz

A look at the man, his half century at Harvard, and his plans for the future.

By Molly E. Wharton

Endpapers

“There are other opportunities for VES concentrators besides,…you know begging in the street.” “We call that busking.”

Arts and Humanities Administrators

Ticket to Drive

The End of Endpapers

Editors’ Note

In this very special year-in-review edition of FM, we rounded up the 2013-’14 trends, events, and people that mattered (or didn’t). We picked the year’s five biggest winners of the school year. We’re sorry you didn’t make the list of biggest winners (unless you’re reading this, Evelynn Hammonds–what’s up?), but we promise you were #6. At least you weren’t one of our biggest losers (shout out to Shake Shack and the Harvard Ichthus).

If you’re more of a visual learner, we hope you enjoyed the year in photos. There were shots of the basketball team, the football team, the crew team, and also non–sports teams, too. They say a picture tells 1,000 words, so you just read more than 10,000. Now get back to your Social Studies 10 reading.

We also hope you enjoyed our more humorous content. We looked back on trends, compared the class of 2014 to the game 2048, compiled the best house e-mails of the year, and listed the alumni we wish had donated a building to Harvard (wouldn’t you want to live in Assman House?).

On a more serious note, we investigated the first generation student experience at Harvard, profiled Alan Dershowitz, who retired earlier this year, and rounded up the year’s best parties. There’s nothing more serious than a good time. Hope it was a good read!

Cheers to the three day weekend,
Libby R. Coleman and Petey E. Menz