Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in undergraduate society--in and out of the classroom. An administrator who goes out of his way to meet and assist students. Marquand believes that Harvard suffers from the unreasonably high expectations of students who come here anticipating the best education on earth and instant gratification in every endeavor. Once they discover the school's idiosyncrasies, students begin parroting the age-old complaints: "Classes too big, no one to tell my troubles to, departments impersonal...squawk!" With experience, most learn that a little personal initiative goes a long way, and they graduate less starry-eyed but without calamity...
...become a much bigger one, the General Motors of the world's opera companies. A Wall Street lawyer by profession, with close connections to moneyed New York society, Bliss has brought the practices of modern business management to what is, and will always remain, an artistic endeavor...
...Collegium is sponsored in the endeavor by the parents of Karen Avra Gordon '84, who died last year and was a member of Hillel. Her father (Professor of Chemistry Roy Gordon) and mother mean to sponsor a religious or Israeli musical event each term for the next several years...
Philip A. Kuhn, professor of History and of East Asian Civilizations and Languages, sees physical endeavor as an alternative to total decay." Unlike many of his colleagues, though, he is unwilling to exercise in a boring or repetitive manner. He prefers to go cross-country sking in New Hampshire's White Mountains, where he owns a cabin. "Anybody who lives in New England and doesn't get out to the country really is missing a great deal. The thrill of gliding through the forest on noiseless skis is hard to beat...
...expense of pure research. When the plans for the shuttle were first unveiled, a half-dozen teams of scientists at the joint Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysics center in Cambridge received the thumbs-up to numerous projects designed for the shuttle. That number has dropped since then, with only one endeavor--an infra-red telescope--having a reservation for a trip in the near future and still receiving full NASA backing. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian center are now anxiously awaiting the green-light on projects for now tabled...