Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Munoz was not alone in needing more thanprestige to accept Harvard's offer. High schoolcounselors surveyed earlier this spring agreedthat though name value is a big factor in collegechoice, it is not the only factor...
...feel there were profound problems with Harvard and with the world, and that it was incumbent upon them to change things. Over the decades, this feeling has waned, and, in an era when Harvard admissions are again more competitive than ever before, many have again become willing--grateful--to accept whatever Harvard has to offer...
...think that's good stuff," Fox said. I disagree. Certainly we are lucky to have gotten in, and certainly Harvard can and will do many things for us. The mistake is, however, to believe that it is our duty to calmly accept whatever the University has to offer at face value and not to question it every step of the way. Harvard, I like to think, is not in the business of sending out into the world mindless drones who will play follow the leader for the rest of their lives. Instead, it was my impression, Harvard means to instill...
...accept responsibility for [my] stupidity," said one of the rowers. "I do not accept responsibility for doing this to the people I respect the most...
While it is the low rate of internal tenure,not the arbitrariness of the process, thatgenerally drives talented junior faculty membersto accept offers from other institutions beforetheir Harvard contracts expire, many professorssay the shrouded and sometimes arbitrary Harvardprocess breeds unnecessary resentment...