Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we have no concerns or worries. Harvard appears to be an ideal world where so many people care about you that it is just like being at home with your parents. Surely they will not be disappointed in these couple of days, for the fooling process has already begun. Big events and snazzy teas are planned. And professors who hardly come out of their offices to greet students (they have more important things to do) are straightening their bow ties and reciting their speeches to their favorite people (themselves) in a mirror...
...liberal arts institutions, but to enable them to do well enough in their first year and after to have a fair shot at merit-based financial aid (the higher the grade average, the more scholarship and the less loan and part-time-job requirement). Since early 1960s undergraduates had begun to think of spending a term or so abroad, public schools focused on more than learning to read a foreign language. They emphasized ALM, audio-lingual method...
Keeping myself busy is not the problem; it is more that indifference and self-contemplation have become my favorite states of mind. I have begun to wonder where the rest of my life is going and what I am doing inside these Crimson gates, and when that isn't doing it, I have blocking madness to consider. But it isn't the tangible problems that are making February icky. Instead, I feel that a certain futility has overshadowed the repetitiveness of college life, even after only one semester here. Weeks elapse, and besides the reading selections, nothing changes very much...
Adam agreed that real reform has only just begun at PBHA...
...HAVE BARELY BEGUN TO DISCOVER life on our own planet, and time is running out. Not even half the plants and animals that inhabit Earth have been discovered and cataloged. Should we be spending billions of dollars trying to find life in space when our own planet's life-forms are disappearing before our eyes? CHRISTOPHER M. HECKSCHER Dover, Delaware...