Word: barrenness
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...ride; I only want to make it clear that the organizations whose members were quoted in Tuesday’s article are members of a shrinking coalition of student organizations who have yet to take advantage of the resources that the SOCH offers. The assertion that the SOCH is barren or underutilized is empirically false: the space is used constantly by dozens of student groups. For any given week, the SOCH has at least as many student group reservations as most Yard buildings. Furthermore, bookings for student groups at the SOCH have more than doubled in the past few months...
...Harvard’s history—A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, would take the reins. While Lowell broke with the past in his love of the macho sport of football, he despised organized cheering. In a 1911 Crimson article, Lowell described the practice as “barren, poor, and meagre,” and “with less modulation, less means of expressing degrees and varieties of emotion of any kind than any other form of expression—with the possible exception of the fog-horn...
...Kong Jockey Club, internationally renowned for its wealth and incomparable facilities but not, till recently, the quality of its thoroughbreds, Silent Witness showed the Club packed horsepower too. Though racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since the British first colonized the barren rock, its citizens are not known for their sentimentality at the track. Yet attendance at Sha Tin would surge up to 50% whenever Silent Witness was on the card. His exploits even lifted Hong Kong's morale when the city badly needed a boost. In 2003, the first year...
...coffee bar. But there is one thing missing: students. “Every time I’ve been there, the place is all but empty,” Harvard Democrats Communications Director Garrett D. Nelson ’09 wrote in an e-mail. Despite the barren hallways, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said that he was “incredibly happy” with the success of SOCH’s first semester. “I have enjoyed going up to the SOCH and seeing students working in their offices, using the common...
...helped Hong Kong remain a force in international commerce. "Rather than being a follower, we're leading the trends," says Peter Solomon, chief executive of Linmark Group, a Hong Kong-- based supply-chain-management company. Someone--someplace--has to be globalization's enabler. Turns out, it's that famous barren rock in the South China...