Word: existance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University has been determined that in seeking diversity of the hiring practices that exist here," Hoyte says...
What is the real Harvard, the Harvard that continues to exist in the reality of its students and not merely in the myth of its memory? Sometimes I feel that the true Harvard only comes alive at night. The tourists are gone, the air is hushed, and the lights from the first-year dorms shine in the night--from the middle of the Yard, the lights could even be glistening candles, not halogen lamps. This is the image of Harvard that brought me here: a Harvard of un-bricked fireplaces, dusty books buried in Widener and Houghton Libraries and benches...
...intellectual debate, he told me were more astounding than he ever experienced in any classroom, or than he has experienced since--and these are the things that stayed with him. There are times when I yearn for this Harvard, but then I wonder: does that Harvard really exist, or is it only a myth...
...generation of young Americans, opening up the possibilities of the painted figure once more. In their time, Guston's paintings seemed like a kind of treason to the high-minded refusals of late Modernism, but therein lay their newness--and their influence. They confirmed that in American art refutations exist to be themselves refuted...
What incentive there is now to teach a Core class, namely the opportunity to teach a great many students a great many things about a field from a particular perspective, would still exist under a Core with significant bypasses. If a student were allowed to take an introductory psychology class for biological science credit, might it not be a popular class that even senior Faculty members might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside...