Word: neatness
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...really neat to see huge solar system bodies crossing each other," said Benjamin D. Oppenheimer '99, an astronomy enthusiast at the viewing...
...notion that a liberal education can be gated into the Yard and boxed off into neat slots on a weekly planner is nonsensical. Just as anyone with an iota of intellectual curiosity does not "stop" educating herself after getting a degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time...
...jealous of people who spend their careers pushing back the borders of knowledge and getting paid ridiculously well for it, not to mention that they get to wear jeans and T-shirts to work every day? Not only that, but divine retribution on over-programmed programmers would be a neat way for a deity to get back at Harvard, the institution once devoted to the study of God and now devoted to the study of art, nature, society, technology, money and power. As those who sit at the apex of the esoteric and the practical, computer science students would...
...understand why the Core is inadequate for Harvard undergraduates, and the Core remains a mess, a bureaucratic beast that is dying too slowly. The Core is a multi-faceted and therefore extremely complicated problem: the Faculty Council tried and failed to solve it, and I do not have a neat solution, either. But the Faculty, particularly those members who helped create the Core in the 1970s, must realize the detrimental effects the Core has on Harvard students...
...competition, by contrast, initially seemed like a competition of one. Four-time National champion Todd Eldredge, as staid as he is flawless, landed all his jumps in the short program, winning easily to the tune of Walk on the Wild Side from the movie Casino. It was clean and neat but hardly the stuff of high drama...