Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she had entered the bathroom 15 minutes earlier, heard a person showering and smelled what she described as "a repulsive odor." She left immediately to avoid the stench and returned...
...tried to pass alongside the impromptu audience in the Yard and heard the unmistakable cadences of President Neil L. Rudenstine's voice over the loudspeakers, I suddenly realized what was going on: opening exercises for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, or perhaps just the ambling curiosity of a junior who fondly remembers her days in Canaday, I took a seat on the steps of Widener and eavesdropped as dean after dean warned the first years about what to expect before the millennium was up. As I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that aside from...
...entire show was more or less the same as it had been my first year. I remember listening to these same speeches, hearing the Glee Club singing "Fair Harvard" and thinking how I would soon know all the words by heart. (I haven't heard the song since.) As a first year sitting in one of those folding chairs, I thought hard about what Rudenstine and all the other speakers said and decided that they must be right. Yes, I was sure, I would change my mind about what I wanted to study. Within a year's time, I would...
...Class of 2001, I would like to add the following words of wisdom to the many you have already heard. The moment that Harvard will reward you is not the moment when you forge your greatest ties to the University, or even when you get that job or make that leap through the connections and thinking that you gained here, but rather the moment when something or someone that is distinctly non-Harvard-even though you might find that someone or something here-becomes more important to you than Harvard itself, when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given...
...think that students should be able to smoke in their own rooms as long as it doesn't affect other students in the house. I live in Mather and I know that what goes on it one room can't be heard, much less smelled, in another room. --Jerry W. O'Connor '98, Mather House