Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game of chance was supposed to end with Harvard's letter of admission. But for students coping with personal problems--from dealing with a breakup to suffering from serious mental illness--the University's resources benefit only the "aggressive" or those who are lucky enough to find a tutor who cares, a teaching fellow who notices or a therapist who is available...
...will elaborate on the concept that we don't only need to strengthen our network of families but that children grow up in communities," says Solnit, who is also the commissioner of mental health and addiction services for the state of Connecticut...
...very commercial form of mental illness," says Farrelly. "He's a very sweet guy--he's got a big heart, a lot of soul--but he's a tortured animal. My metaphor for Jim is a dog who's constantly beaten up by his owner. The dog can't figure out why. He tries everything to please his owner. He walks on his hind legs; he juggles. Nothing works. Then one day the circus comes along and scoops him up, and he makes a career...
...while breaking fresh territory for LG. But when Abby, en route from a semester in Australia, joined the party for a few days, she found nothing even resembling "party." Andrea was doing things in quintessential Harvard style--overdoing them, to the delight of her editors and at her own mental, physical and emotional expense. Repeated exhortations that this was "only a job", that Let's Go was as much about enjoying one's time as it was about meeting deadlines, seemed to fall on deaf ears...
Harvard could use a rigorous club athletic program for non-varsity athletes, along the lines of the well run Boxing Club. Education, training, and persistence, the virtues of athletic education, are the cornerstone to physical and mental health. Though Massachusetts does not have an athletic requirement for students like New York does, the University can take a cue from Cornell and offer free classes in all varieties of the physical...