Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fearing any attempt to play prophet in front of a University "family gathering," Conant publicly changed his assignment. He chose to speak more generally about why private universities like Harvard were still important for the future in the midst of a devastating depression...
...fellow member of the Class of '99 last week, eager to meet the writer behind pieces she had enjoyed since her first year here. "You let me see a life I'd never seen before," she said, and I froze, remembering Anne of Green Gables' first crappy attempt at writing, when she learns the stuff of literary gold is not in her head, but right next door. That's what I did right, at least once, for this woman, and it made me think that my last piece for this paper better do the same. It better fulfill my reporter...
...fellow member of the Class of '99 last week, eager to meet the writer behind pieces she had enjoyed since her first year here. "You let me see a life I'd never seen before," she said, and I froze, remembering Anne of Green Gables' first crappy attempt at writing, when she learns the stuff of literary gold is not in her head, but right next door. That's what I did right, at least once, for this woman, and it made me think that my last piece for this paper better do the same. It better fulfill my reporter...
...part, Minow presented an oration on the topic of memory, something that she referred to as the "brain's attempt to make sense of our experience...
Most important, of course, has been the learning. We have spent the past four years accumulating a wealth of knowledge about something. Some of us are not quite sure what that something is since we've spent the last week in an attempt to wash it away with drink and/or contact sports...