Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...address student complaints of a social life centered around cramped dorm rooms and exclusive final clubs. Additions including the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), the Lamont Library Café, and Women’s Center opened to levels of student enthusiasm that ranged from the subdued to the ecstatic...
Above all, the Faculty must rise to the occasion. It must show as much enthusiasm in offering new courses as it did when over 400 faculty members showed up to attend a vote of no confidence in Summers. The lack of enthusiasm evidenced by Curricular Review votes that barely reached a Faculty quorum, and professors’ certitude and inability to cooperate, must give way to a newly concerted communal effort. That did not happen in the past four years, but it needs to start happening if the new curriculum is to work for professors—and most importantly...
...despite the enthusiasm for expansion abroad, an anxiety lingers that Harvard will find itself overextended—perhaps endangering its elite status...
...women was the epee. Seniors Jasmine McGlade and Precious Eboigbe and sophomore Maria Larsson carried the Crimson throughout much of the season. “They’ve been really solid,” Brand said. “They feed off of each other’s enthusiasm, they’re very pumped for each match, they help each other.” In the women’s saber, junior Alexa Weingarden was the sole fencer to make nationals, although co-captain Samantha Parker fell just short of an at-large bid. Weingarden finished 11th...
...rain. A similar fate befell the CEB’s big spring event: Yardfest. While students sheepishly admitted to being excited for an anachronistic performance by Third Eye Blind, the heavens dumped buckets on Yardfest’s attendees. The CEB should be applauded for salvaging the event, but enthusiasm (and attendance) for the event was dampened.These mixed successes reveal that investing too many resources in events that are easily and arbitrarily ruined is unwise. Rather, the CEB should continue planning the small events it executes well. While these events might not draw the entire campus, they accomplish more than...