Word: feeling
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...agree. So even if we’ve given your House a low ranking this year, it’s probably still a pretty spiffy place to call home, and we're sure the staff and House Committees do a great job cultivating House spirit and making you feel comfortable and welcome...
...Commons (which is known mostly for having a kitchen), a couple of practice rooms, a 24/7 gym, a computer lab, two laundry rooms, and two small classrooms—in addition to a Senior Common Room, art studio, and dark room that are never open. Standish and Gore still feel separate since no student-accessible tunnels connect the two buildings. If you don’t get placed in a choice entryway, be prepared to haul your laundry outside...
...tutors are great to talk to at meals and give solid advice about papers, fellowships, and life in general. Winthrop’s new House Masters—Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Lecturer Stephanie Robinson—have made Winthrop feel more like a home with spirited conversation in the dining hall and at open houses and class teas. While Winthrop does not have as ostentatious a House spirit as Pforzheimer or Mather, Winthrop’s pride is reserved but true—seen in the quiet burdens that residents brush off with empathy...
...Hanks' star rose in the 1990s, he sought out new sources of what he calls "entertainable historical knowledge." Leon Uris' fact-anchored novels - Mila 18, Armageddon and Exodus - taught Hanks to feel history in a way no high school teacher ever did, but the entertainment level had to be hyperkinetic to hold his attention. It was the same with most academic histories. "The writing is often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," he says. Ken Burns' miniseries The Civil War, which aired on PBS in the fall of 1990, gave him a sense of how he might...
...culture can be just as important, if not more so, in contributing to the success of its students. Akerlof and Kranton explain how many schools that have bucked the trend and succeeded where others have not have done so because of a cohesive culture where teachers and students feel united for a common mission or purpose. There are few, if any, “outsiders,” because everyone buys into the school’s ideas and missions...