Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This vague phrase was the charge brought against a group of students who were staging a peaceful demonstration against a controversial speaker here a couple of years ago. To me it demonstrates Harvard's almost complete mistrust of its student body, and, I fear, of its alumni...
Assessments of the school aside, there are those at Harvard who would argue that by perenially placing its high-powered politicos in Washington--no matter what their party affiliation--the University must confront an almost-continual outflow of some of its most prominent scholars...
Ubert was far from the only senior athlete with shattered dreams. Sarah Duncan is the proud owner of two Ivy championship rings. For Duncan, a forward on the women's basketball team, playing Dartmouth for the Ivy title in the final game of the season is almost a ritual...
...does not mind when council members and other fellow students criticize him. "I know I'm trying my best, and I know and expect people to criticize me personally on something controversial," he says. "If you take these things personally it kind of breaks you down and makes it almost impossible to really function...
...Feminist scholar and French literary expert Alice A. Jardine, professor of Romance languages and literature, says she has been granted a lifetime post by the University. Amid junior faculty complaints that they have almost no chance of being offered tenure at Harvard, Jardine's appointment is the second promotion of a junior faculty member from within her department in the last five years...