Word: applauding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Originally considering life as a lawyer, after serving a year in the Army as a teenager, "I had a reconsideration of my lifelong goals," Gill says. "I can only applaud this decision in retrospect...
...into Southern California from New Jersey on a Friday midnight. By Monday morning he must be back at his doorman post in downtown Manhattan. But meantime, as he steps forward to give a speech here at Whittier Law School, some 200 attorneys, historians, journalists and government officials rise to applaud. An elderly lady grasps his hand, murmuring, "God bless you." A student asks for his autograph. And then, in broken English, the thin young man with oval spectacles begins, "My name is Christoph Meili. My job at the bank--I controlled peoples what come in and out. One night...
...applaud not only his wit and humor, but his insight into that most peculiar aspect of the Harvard experience, section. It is a gem worth reprinting in future years. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL...
...concerning their courses tend to dissipate the moment those lovely ScanTron forms appear. CUE Guide forms need to be distributed on previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble in a one. A large minority of respondents do not even write any comments at all, preferring...
...would applaud the editors' commitment to affirmative action if only I knew they really meant it. Those of you--whether student or faculty--who support affirmative action should put your own careers on the line: Offer to give up your position at Harvard in favor of a minority applicant who was denied admission or tenure. Until you make such an offer, I will have to doubt your sincerity. It's all too easy to favor affirmative action once your own seat in the Harvard class or your own tenured position on the faculty is secure. JEREMY BUCK Cambridge, Mass., April...