Word: highstrung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Francisco de la Fuente '97 offered a simple explanation, "Mather is a pretty relaxed house. The tutors here are younger, and definitely less highstrung than the single tutors in other houses who have been at Harvard for, like, thirty years." He even went so far as to suggest that the tutors at Mather might actually "just have sex." Cathy, the I.D. card-checker at the dining hall, considered the question for a while. Bursting into laughter, she surmised, "Must've been a COLD winter!" When asked if she thought the food might have contained fertility-enhancing additives, Cathy quickly supressed...
...mostly there are runners. Some relaxed and joking, others serious and confident, a few nervous and highstrung. There are endless lines to the johns as runners get rid of that extra glass of water they had with breakfast, and every lawn is littered with people stretching out or gearing...