Word: excellency
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yield a comical and sorry dialogue; people do not respond to each other but talk at each other. Communication is supplanted by a thinly veiled conversational chaos. These classes foster the creation of an openly competitive, potentially intimidating environment in which only the talkers survive, and only the articulate excel...
...Until recently we have been denied the opportunity to excel in an environment that promotes Native ways of seeing the world," he says...
Since Dartmouth is a physically bigger team than Princeton, Harvard expects a more outright physical game than the one against its last Ivy League opponent--minus the cheap shots the Tigers seemed to excel...
...people who changed the system despite the fact that they were legally excluded from participation. Just because one has the right to participate in politics does not mean that we are forced to renew that right every four years by voting. Think of the thousands of students who excel on the strength of their political beliefs and experience. Not a single one of those people has ever voted. It is part of our fundamental beliefs that political rights cannot be taken away. This logic might also suggest that it is impossible to give them away...
Radcliffe has provided with me with occasions of experimentation with leadership roles and creative arts. It has also given me the security required to explore those areas in which I might not excel. In Radcliffe Yard, I feel the support of a tradition of bold (dare I say "remarkable"?) women who came before me; their unspoken strength has pushed me to try without always expecting to succeed. Moreover, through marvelous academic opportunities, such as Radcliffe Seminars, Bunting Fellowhsips and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe has communicated its committment to non-traditional students. This freedom for others has translated into a greater...