Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men? Too immature, oversexed, ugly, unwilling to commit. The wise woman doesn't trust a Harvard man any farther than she can throw...
...meetings for the membership, and that at the last one, only two members had shown up. Now, I'd be happy to meet with any two students who had a concern, and I think the other undergraduate directors would also be willing. But other board members are reluctant to commit to this kind of situation, mainly just because they're busy people. (Bill Dixon is senior vice president at MIT, Sally Zeckhauser is Harvard's vice president for administration, and so on.) If I could guarantee that even 50 students would show up, they'd be more than happy...
...even larger problem is the dearth of minority Ph.Ds candidates nationwide. While Harvard could bolster its ranks of minority faculty by luring them away from other universities, this approach is no lasting solution. Harvard will have to commit itself to increasing the number of minorities in the academic "pipeline" before the problem of homogeneous faculties can be adequately addressed. The recent increase in minority admissions to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--which followed a boost in the school's financial aid funding--is a promising sign for the 21st century...
...curse, inflicted upon the family by a witch burned at the stake by one of Ruthven's ancestors, decrees that each succeeding baron must commit a crime each day or die in agony. Thus exposed, Ruthven must abandon Rose and return to Ruddigore Castle and begin his life of crime. After incurring the displeasure of the ghosts of his ancestors for performing crimes deemed too paltry (he forges his own will and disinherits a son he does not have), Ruthven discovers a way to escape the curse, and, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style, live happily ever after...
Patterson said persuading new faculty to teach in the interdisciplinary program is like "inviting them to commit academic suicide...