Word: accomplish
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...Demonstrations—they’re very symbolic, they rarely accomplish anything towards your goal,” Barnhill says, looking back on that evening. “But it gets people on board and it establishes an environment of action, and I think that was important because so often we settle things with discussion...
...reality such gifts, which comprise up to 90 percent of the donations to the HCF, more often go to decidedly less sexy causes—including maintenance costs and utility bills that the entire FAS incurs. While many of these expenditures benefit the College indirectly, they do not accomplish the goal that the fund’s name would seem to imply and many donors seem to expect: to give back to undergraduate life at Harvard College...
...that Harvard women’s hockey co-captain Julie Chu brought with her into the 2006-07 season. With such a complete body of work in her tenure with the Crimson, there didn’t seem to be a whole lot left for the senior to accomplish as she returned to the Bright Hockey Center after missing a season playing for Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy...
...world when it is 20 degrees outside and dark at 4:30 p.m., or alternately during exam period when it is pouring rain and you are on the way to crew practice is an exceedingly difficult task. I would be lying if I said I could always accomplish it, but I do think that as I’ve moved through Harvard I’ve been able to recognize and appreciate the good more and complain about the bad less...
...enthusiasm (and attendance) for the event was dampened.These mixed successes reveal that investing too many resources in events that are easily and arbitrarily ruined is unwise. Rather, the CEB should continue planning the small events it executes well. While these events might not draw the entire campus, they accomplish more than the large-scale events because they bring people together based on common interests and facilitate genuine social interaction.Few locations could hold more potential as a pillar of Harvard’s social life than the Cambridge Queen’s Head. From its opening in April...