Word: avidly
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Plan B for the Type A’s then covered Weezer, a band with an understandably avid following at Harvard, since lead singer Rivers Cuomo is pursuing a degree here. Concert-goers further showed their fanaticism by enthusiastically bopping along to “Buddy Holly” and even chiming in on the newer, less popular “Beverly Hills...
...very old-fashioned, rigorous professor, but very inspiring.” Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian” manner, cold-calling students and moving on abruptly if he deemed their answers less than satisfactory. Moore was an avid sailor and, according to Walder, would spend around six months per year living alone on his sailboat, which was docked in Maine. Moore was also known to invite his favorite few students to his house to dine with him and his wife, Betty, a few times a year. “He could...
...Share your love of learning: Close to 70 percent of teachers come from the bottom 30 percent of their college graduating classes. We as a student body have the power to change that trend, to lead a new generation of educators who even before teaching were classroom leaders: avid students with a love of learning. Perhaps the drudgery of perpetual problem sets and papers has managed to drive such a passion from our souls, but I think most of us still have that love within us somewhere—otherwise, we probably couldn’t have made it here.5...
...College students are some of the most avid music fans,” Engebretsen wrote. “Because the music habits and customs they develop now are likely to stay with them for life, it’s especially important for us to educate them about the law, the harm suffered by musicians, labels and retailers alike, when music is stolen and the great legal ways to enjoy music online...
...Shleifer hosted Summers and several other members of the economics department, at his home to break their fasts after Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. At one point that night, the two friends played a game of ping-pong. Summers won easily, but the Harvard president is an avid tennis player, so the outcome was never really in doubt. Shleifer, one might say, was screwed...