Word: eagerness
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...table the way they did when they were 7, the dinner evangelists produce evidence to the contrary. The CASA study found that a majority of teens who ate three or fewer meals a week with their families wished they did so more often. Parents sometimes seem a little too eager to be rejected by their teenage sons and daughters, suggests Miriam Weinstein, a freelance journalist who wrote The Surprising Power of Family Meals. "We've sold ourselves on the idea that teenagers are obviously sick of their families, that they're bonded to their peer group," she says...
...bureaucracy that was as efficient, fair-minded and honest as its reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policymakers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have been quite as brilliant as Gilmour would have us believe, it deserves its mystique. Whatever their faults...
...WHOM YOU DON'T OBVIOUSLY HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. I got very much into him and liked him, sympathized with him, even admired him. He's in some ways like me as I remember myself. But he's more pious and more cool, more composed. Not this disheveled, eager-to-please, puppyish adolescent, which is my image of myself. He's not so puppyish. He has a deadly streak...
...engineering undergraduates in the future.As FAS considers the creation of a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the coming months, its challenge should be to reconcile three competing desires: the urge to compete with schools like Stanford and Princeton that frequently gobble up would-be Harvardians eager to study engineering; the need to complement new multidisciplinary initiatives in the sciences with a world-class engineering program; and, most importantly, the aspiration to work toward the first two aims without sacrificing Harvard College’s liberal arts mission. To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure...
...popular positive psychology lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 will be on leave next year—Harvard will still have HAPPI. The Harvard Applied Positive Psychology Initiative (HAPPI), a student group recently launched by Samuel E. Siner ’09, has been met with eager response from the student body, with 66 students replying within a week to e-mails sent out over house lists describing the group. Siner, who took both Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology” and Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” with...