Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine will need to keep a vigilant eye trained on potential fundraising excesses....When climbing into bed with moneyed interests, the University should be extremely careful to keep its academic principles independent from its funding sources--a goal that will become more difficult (and more important) to uphold as fundraising is accelerated. Harvard should not sell out to the highest bidder...
...this has ever happened to you. You're sitting up half the night, either in a library or in your room, pounding away at a paper or problem set or studying your brains out for an exam. (OK, that much I know has happened to you.) You jump into bed at around three in the morning, priming yourself for your class, review session, or even your exam by telling yourself, "No problem, I'm in bed. Thank goodness I'm getting six hours of sleep." And then it happens: you don't sleep...
...turn the clock over so that you can't see it; after a while, you begin to fear the light that you know will come streaming in the window far too soon. You lie in bed, alternately staring at the ceiling and the insides of your eyelids, trying to remember what someone once told you when you had trouble sleeping as a child, to pretend that you are lying on a raft on the ocean or that you are floating on a cloud. You start thinking about balancing on a cloud and what clouds are made of and whether...
...Harvard's zombies. Every once in a while, I jump into bed late, anxious to fall asleep before I have to wake up six hours later, and every once in a while, I end up simply not falling asleep at all. You might see me in class sometimes, zoned and exhausted. Or on my way to class, talking with a speed and energy remarkable even for a talkative person like me. Some people achieve a similar effect through alcohol or drugs, or incredibly large doses of caffeine. But my erratic situation, and probably that of most of my sleepless friends...
...Point B, that you'll sleep through your exam, that you won't get a job or get into graduate school, that you have no idea where you'll be in three years or two years or even six months from now, that you'll be lying awake in bed all night and never fall asleep...