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Word: fourths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hail Harvard! With a month-and-a-half to go in the 20th century, that illustrious institution on the Charles has done it again. It's a new cultural innovation--the fourth meal...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...assist the students in "maxing out," Harvard has come up with the idea of the fourth meal. Details are still being worked out, but something served "warm and fresh" around midnight seems to be the best suggestion for keeping these future captains of industry plugging along until morning...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...with the new fourth meal, students can avoid strolling along side streets and listening to all that rambling chit chat. They can just slam down the books, dash over to the dining commons and slug down a "warm and fresh." It's a beautiful system, really. As sleek and efficient...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Then there's the whole issue of setting priorities. With the fourth meal, Harvard says to students: Your work is everything. If it takes 18 hours a day to complete, then trim back extraneous details like eating and sleeping and get to it! You never know who may be staying up one hour later than...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...fourth meal also avoids that archaic concept of everyone eating together at the same time. "If Harvard wants to be a diverse school, it has to have diverse meals," one junior declared...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

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