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Word: majoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matt's one drawback, particularly if you ask my mother, was that he was seriously involved in a long-term relationship from which he was unwilling to extricate himself. It was certainly a major drawback, and an important strain on our relationship...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Blase About First Year At Harvard | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...became particularly close in March, when Ispent a week helping him finish his thesis. It wasexhausting and often frustrating, but in the endthe experience helped me decide to become a SocialStudies major and write a thesis of my own. Andbeing involved so closely in the life of a seniorwas exactly what a blase first-year student likemyself was seeking...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Blase About First Year At Harvard | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...encouraged me to work hard on TheCrimson, in part to make up for the fact that hehadn't been able to compete against those who hadalways been there. It was he who spent hoursdiscussing with me which house I should live inand which major I should choose. It was he whoread publications for first-year students and toldme about all the opportunities that I shouldn'tpass up, in part because he had been forced...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Blase About First Year At Harvard | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...Board of Overseers, which is elected by all Harvard graduates, is the University's other governing body, at least in theory. The Board is supposed to advise the Corporation on major decisions, but historically the 30-member body has had all the spunk of a geriatrics ward after...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Wisdom Dispensed From Mount Harvard's Peak | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...immediate response. But U.S. critics promptly charged that the Bush Administration was avoiding tough questions, like whether to scrap the Star Wars antimissile system, and deliberately delaying a START agreement. The Administration, warned Senator Joseph Biden, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, may have committed a "major blunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Off to a Bad START? | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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