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To the editors:
In “Fool For the City”
(comment, Nov. 7), Nikhil G. Mathews argues that the crime, pollution,
and lack of chirping birds and beautiful grass are the reasons why the
urban setting of Harvard is a drawback.
Ironically, these “terrors of urban living” seem to denigrate
the relative trivialities of the country (chirping birds and glorious
grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available
from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to
the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of
society—which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be
serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I
run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their eyes to the
problems of the ghetto on their way to a job on the Upper West Side.
As Harvard students, we have a responsibility to fix the ills
of our world. But to fix them, we’ve got to know them. Maybe if we
personally understand how the other half lives, we’ll be more likely to
dedicate our lives to their service.
ANDREW L. KALLOCH ’06
November 7, 2005
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