Word: idealizes
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Grassi said D'Alessandro's experience cutting costs and increasing the efficiency of a large district similar to Cambridge convinced him she was the ideal candidate...
...speakers' main theme was the importance of "school culture," which, the panelists said, includes small class sizes, and close, "democratic" relationships between teachers, parents and students. Much of the discussion centered on defining just what exactly the ideal school culture...
Like it or not, drinking is a mainstay of college life. Ideally, alcohol would be consumed responsibly and in moderation and alcohol poisoning, aspiration or falling off roofs in a drunken stupor (all causes of the deaths of various college students over the past several years) would never occur. Although we are aware that we do not live in an ideal world, irresponsible drinking needs to stop and more efforts to heighten the awareness of rising first-years needs to start...
...Harvard, an ideal occasion for the dissemination of this information is during the required visits by peer counseling groups to proctor groups. Proctors and tutors need to take a more responsible approach to the problem of heavy drinking instead of sending the message of "as long as I don't see it, it's all right." Leaving inexperienced first-years to figure out their own limits without guidance leaves them in the kind of ignorance that cost Scott Krueger his life. Proctors and tutors should either give a stern warning about the risks of drinking, in terms of both physical...
Anne Bradstreet, though of course unable to attend Harvard-even talented as she was, is an ideal choice to represent the ground-breaking women of the class of 1976. She struggled against a maledominated society which frowned on her writing. Professor Vendler quoted from Bradstreet's poem "The Prologue," in her remarks on Saturday: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/Who says my hand a needle better fits." The carping tongues were blissfully silent this weekend, and Bradstreet now ushers us into the Yard, a constant reminder of the achievements past and still to come. We can all sing "Fair...