Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has always been a place that is mindful of traditions. As a great enthusiast for traditions myself, I wonder why the University abandoned the original way of dealing with housing applications. In the past each house boasted its distinct history and characteristics, and people had to apply and be interviewed in order to get in. Because the selection process was competitive, a house almost could not fail to admit students who would contribute the most and savor house life to the fullest. Each house resident would consider it an honor to live in that house and sense the responsibility...
...feel, perhaps incorrectly, that it has deleteriously affected the morale in the dining hall," Bossert said, adding that he has noticed "a very distinct cooling" in the relationship between faculty, staff and students...
...classes. As a government concentrator who has sat through both the aforementioned Core and government department courses, I too fail to see this distinguishable "approach." Therefore, members of the Faculty of the Committee on the Core Program, either loosen the ban on departmental classes or make more apparent this distinct "approach to knowledge" the Core claims to instill...
...decision must soon be made. If the individual bands of the Core are expanded to allow more flexibility by using department courses for Core credit, then we bid farewell to the entire existence of the Core as a distinct body of courses. In such a case, the Core would cease to exist as a separate entity, but would be incorporated into the departmental curriculums...
...think I'm alone. Harvard students can be classified into distinct categories according to their instrument of choice: there are ball-point gnawers, the roller-ball elite and, somewhat rarer, the pencil people. These types are not mutually exclusive, but they certainly divide the campus into a class structure of note-taking. The felt-tip bullies, a rare exception, force their way onto a sheet with the power of fat letters. As for the multi-colored clicker pen owners, well, they are just confused pre-meds...