Word: holden
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...renovating Holden Chapel, and are usinga new online management system for space," Eppssays. "There has also been talk of building a newperformance space. There has been a response tosome of the problems, but not within the contextof a student center...
Harvard has pledged to renovate Widener Library, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and University Hall, rebuild the clock tower atop Memorial Hall, construct a home for its newly inaugurated center for Genomics and Proteomics, and revising its plans for the Knafel Center for the Social Sciences...
...Holden Chapel behind Stoughton and Hollis Halls is set for similarly substantial renovations, part of an effort spearheaded by outgoing Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to increase rehearsal space for the College's choral groups...
...least one hopes so. Teenage skepticism--Holden Caulfield's bitter gift for discerning inconsistencies in the solemn pronouncements of adults--may be one of the troubling traits on the medicators' target list. A pill that tones down youthful b.s. detectors would certainly be a boon to parents and teachers, but how would it enrich the lives of teenagers? Even if such a pill improved their moods--helping them stick to their studies, say, and compete in a world with close to zero tolerance for unproductive monkeying around--would it not rob them (and the rest of us) of a potent...
...drugs) that such diseases are real and formidable, impossible to wish away. But for kids in the murky emotional borderlands described in books like The Catcher in the Rye, antidepressants, stimulants and sedatives aren't a substitute for books and records, heroes and antiheroes. "I get bored sometimes," Holden Caulfield says, "when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am--I really do--but people never notice it. People never notice anything...