Word: equalize
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...door-to-door in the slums of New Jersey to being on the frontlines of the civil rights movement to teaching his lecture-hall filling Harvard elective, Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," Coles embodies the ideal of considering people--from small children to towering figures--with equal weight to their importance as humans...
...recepients, we consider the short-term decisions made for this year unfortunate. If eligibility for any of the prizes is, according to the donor's wishes, gender-specific, we urge the College to designate an equivalent prize for a member of the opposite sex, so as to ensure an equal number of prizes are available to men and women...
...effort to pursue a prominent place for gender and women's concerns in the united Harvard College, male and female. The distribution of prizes is one of the most emotional aspects of Harvard undergraduate life, for better or for worse--when the opportunity to win them is made equal for women and men, we will begin to see the results of this promising new arrangement between Harvard and Radcliffe...
Before continuing, as I've learned in my experience writing countless papers and essays, I should define my terms. Happiness does not equal utopic perfection. Despite my happiness, I do still wish that, among other things, I could get an extra hour of sleep every morning, that my muscles were a bit larger and my shirts were always ironed and pressed for me; that the Mets, Knicks and Jets could win their respective league championships every year; and that there be world peace, a solution to global warming and a cure for cancer...
...wait. As you walk around the room, you notice something: the shelves are not of equal height. The tallest ones are at the bottom. And they are full of the tallest books. Then you understand. Jefferson, the philosopher, worshipped reason. Jefferson, the librarian, understood that sometimes you must surrender to reality and classify a book by its size...