Word: approaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nearly two dozen members of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) braved the elements to canvass for several Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire on Saturday. After an hours-long bus ride, the students arrived in Manchester and Concord to approach local voters and drop off flyers on rain-splattered neighborhood porches. The downpour kept some students inside making rounds of calls to gauge and rally support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and for Manchester’s Mayor Frank C. Guinta, who is running for re-election. The only voter they met face to face was the pizza delivery...
...though I would come to get used to this aspect of the Harvard landscape (and discover microcosms of intellectualism on campus), the pervasive apathy still troubles me. The ability to engage with the world in a multifaceted way, to employ the approach of liberal arts, and to absorb and apply new knowledge over the course of a lifetime is an essential part of being an intelligent and worthwhile person. If Harvard, an apex of higher learning, does not hold the pursuit of intellectualism as a central value, then can any other place be expected...
...approach to Cambridge Rindge and Latin’s award-winning arts and theater program is a case in point...
...Seidel criticizes many of the current councillors—some of whom have served in city government for almost two decades—for not listening to constituent concerns and or taking a sufficiently hands-on approach to management...
...fitting with his background and approach to the issues, Seidel has well-formed views about development: he advocates high density construction around key areas like T stops and Mass...