Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a bit of a cultural attitude at some institutions that graduate students are expendable, that they are largely cheap labor for teaching and research," says former GSC President Adam Fagen...
...known to them. Detecting betrayal, or at least discerning its possibility, makes for painful, wearisome learning, but given what I know of undergraduate life in my 25 years of teaching here, and especially given what I know from alumni in the ruthless, high-powered world beyond Commencement, knowing a bit about betrayal often means avoiding it. Date-rape involves betrayal of trust. So does adultery. So does deliberate sabotage of a project by some team member anxious to advance at the expense of the group--perhaps by seeming to solve something at the last moment. So does embezzlement...
...other-wise hidden, that jolts alertness. Some undergraduates--mostly male I suspect--love the game, and I am glad they do. So long as the Republic requires young men to register for compulsory military service, its universities must necessarily support the skills on which its freedom depends, and a bit of Assassin leads players to remember the primacy of infantry. But undergraduates who enjoy the game grow familiar not just with action and masquerading but with betrayal and protection from betrayal, and in time join the ranks of men--nowadays people I suppose--of good will, what the law still...
...longer be single-sex offerings. The Office of Career Services and Radcliffe should work carefully together to ensure that no opportunity for undergraduates--male or female--is lost as those programs are folded into the Harvard system. The fate of the Radcliffe Union of Students is a bit more uncertain; as Radcliffe's officials student government, it was funded by the former college and now faces a doubtful future. There is no doubt that the redefinition of Radcliffe was a necessity, but Harvard now must prove to those female undergraduates who may feel the loss of Radcliffe that the University...
...find a supervisor who you like, who is knowledgeable in your field and who seems to care a lot about the project. Don't stress too much, however; for better or worse, you're going to have to take a good bit of initiative no matter who's there to help. Over the summer before senior year...