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...result is that a lot of the time, we feel off balance. As students, we’re entitled to feel uncertain, about what we know and what we want, but at the same time, it can make us feel anxious. At first, that sense of disorientation is fine??–exhilarating, even. As a freshman, it was exciting to have preconceptions overturned, to wade through post modernist ambivalence for the first time, and to come out the other end with more tempered skepticism. It felt liberating to be “undecided”, not just...

Author: By Maia Usui | Title: Lost and Found | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...know I wanted to leave a quarter of an hour ago? Did you hear me say that yesterday?”“Yes.”“Well, you have one minute, Winifred.”It would have been fine??his slamming the door and all—but that little porcelain canary I kept over my doorway spilled from up top and scattered the ground like your first toss of corn feed. My silk creaked as I stooped to the wreckage. The bird’s beak sat up as tall...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...doing nothing, but you’d rather be here working on fractions, which rank up there with “snitches” and “beaucoup pages on this test” on students’ “Most Hated” list? Well, fine??what can I say? Sit down and start converting mixed numbers...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Those Who Can, Do Teach | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...going to do just fine??this is not the end of the world," he told the Daily News. "But we'll have to set priorities more carefully...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Loses a Quarter of its Endowment | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...University has become both a more national and a more international institution. The Harvard of the 1950s was still largely male, white, with an undergraduate student body dominated by alumni sons—many from private schools and from the East. Many of them were, of course, very fine??but quite a number were not, and there was a bit too much homogeneity. In this respect, there has been a revolution, instigated especially by Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, and carried out by all those in charge of admissions. The triumph of diversity, lamented...

Author: By Stanley Hoffmann | Title: Half a Century of Changes | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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