Word: eying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...past few months, I’ve been in denial about graduating. When well-intentioned, but infuriating, people asked me how I’m feeling about it, I generally avoided eye contact and said that I’m looking forward to new experiences. It didn’t quite feel like lying because I never forced myself to think about it. As someone who has spent the last four years trying to become, against the odds, an in-control, together person, the thought of being shoved out into the world on someone else’s terms...
...untrained eye might have assumed that it was Tim Murphy, not Yale’s Jack Siedlecki, who was on the verge of an undefeated season at the Yale Bowl on Nov. 17. Murphy’s steady hand had guided Harvard through the Ivy League slate unbeaten, setting up a showdown with Yale for the Ivy title with the Bulldogs’ unbeaten season on the line...
...segued into a more personal testimonial:“It was a huge change for me coming to this school. Coming from the South and coming from a Southern Baptist tradition and coming from just the kind of conservative background that I come from, coming here was definitely an eye-opening experience. I think it was good for me because it did open my eyes and it did make me a little more aware of everything that was out there, other than what I had been told all my life. I still believe nearly everything that I was told growing...
...thanked Who has matched us with His hour,/And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,/With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,/To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping...
...aren’t wandering as I was, without a clear purpose and susceptible to distractions. Conscious of what we have been given, of the status afforded our university and of what is expected of us, we should all be working at whatever we do with sure hand, clear eye and sharpened power toward a more just and equitable society. The “hour” is now, waiting for us to match ourselves...