Word: oldest
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...College has the highest yield in the country of accepted students who attend (around 80 percent) because it is the oldest, most famous and richest institution of higher learning in the country. These characteristics have multiple implications: the Faculty consists of superior minds; the academic resources are unparalleled; the athletics program is well-funded; and the student body is split into overlapping categories: the brilliant or exceptionally talented; the very well-rounded or extremely ambitious; the children of the rich, connected, distinguished...
Leather jackets with the IBM logo also camewith the first place finish. IBM sponsored theevent, which is run by the Association forComputing machinery (ACM), the world's oldest andlargest scientific computing society...
Perhaps the argument gaining the most attention, though, is the oldest and simplest: Why should we pay money to solve other people's problems, especially when we have so many problems of our own? Although one could argue against this on the basis of a moral duty to help other human beings in need of aid, there are more prgamatic arguments...
Last week, as Americans embraced the oldest and easiest part of the gay agenda--the feel-good idea that we can "outlaw" hate toward people just because they are gay--voters in one corner of the country struggled with the most difficult and radical part of that agenda: the idea that same-sex relationships should not be morally, religiously or legally any different from opposite-sex ones. Marriage is lush with symbolism--pastors and vows, rings and rice--it's the civil heart through which the blood of state and religion both flow. "Going for marriage is like shooting...
...Boston Mycological Club, the Oldest Amateur Mycological Club in North America, can help fungiphiles learn to grow their own yummy portabello and shitake `shrooms or get the more intrepid myco-hunter involved in local mushroom forays. Harvard students could benefit from a bit more savoir-faire. As June Beack `01 comments, "I think mushrooming would be a fun sport, what with the pigs and everything...