Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they begin their terms, the new overseers are looking forward to bringing their individual expertise to the workings of the University...
...will begin making choices about academics and extracurriculars--what sounds interesting? What would I like to try? Others have told you about academics and extracurriculars, in fact, Harvard will pretend like these are the only two areas of your life with which you should concern yourself. My advice to you is to seek another dimension of life at Harvard: other people. Unlike the course guide and the extracurricular fair, after orientation week you will never be presented with a chance to meet people and choose friends. I guess I thought there would be another chance, and so hung out only...
...need these people, desperately need them, because you can't be simply the Best any longer. With them at the Kong at 2:30 a.m., at the Grille on a Friday night or over a neglected math problem set in your room, you'll begin figuring out where you really fit in a three-dimensional world. It will be amazing to see l,600 merit scholars fan out, like light through a prism, into a class with jocks, nerds, class clowns, artists and every other teenage demographic. Some poor souls will even join the Harvard Lampoon; a semi-secret Sorrento...
...Radcliffe currently offers a number of programs for undergraduates," Dunn said. "I think a good many will continue to be offered but details will be worked out in conversations that will begin this summer...
...such popular so-whating persists, Immerwahr warns, the public may begin grasping at phony solutions to global warming. At the end of last week, some people took comfort from the report of a vast haze of pollutants that collects over the Indian Ocean in the winter, but that researchers only recently studied. Filthy as the cloud is, it does deflect solar radiation, and that could lead to cooling. But scientists warn that we cannot simply pollute our way out of global warming. The soot drops from the hazy atmosphere in weeks, whereas greenhouse gases remain for centuries...