Word: overhearer
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Eavesdrop on a tour of Harvard Yard and you might overhear an oddly perky undergrad telling a swarm of tourists that all of the buildings surrounding the Old Yard are freshman dorms—with two-and-a-half exceptions. Come next fall, however, that number may jump to three. The quirky half—better known as Massachusetts Hall—will join University Hall and Harvard Hall and, unfortunately, may cease to house first-year Harvard students. Following last summer’s transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...you’re a woman in an extracurricular group on Harvard’s campus, this scene will probably be very familiar to you: Your organization’s leadership elections are a couple weeks away, and you overhear a group of guys in the club having the “who’s running for what” conversation. Apparently the list of candidates is already set in stone—and you are not included in that list. In fact, no one has even mentioned the elections to you. You were thinking about running...
...tour in support of his not-especially-tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...
...funny. Similarly, I found the breadth and pungency of his stuff startling but not really shocking. So far as I recall, it didn't upset other members of my middle-class Catholic family, since the only record player was in the dining room, where anyone could hear or overhear the LPs, and nobody gave me an angry shout to turn that junk off. So, by applying contemporary community standards (our house), I'd rule that Lenny Bruce was not obscene...
...some friends of the study group who had previously taken the class in 2005 confirmed” that the 2005 exam also shared similar questions with the 2004 final exam. After completing the final, Heather E. Carmichael ’09 said she was surprised to overhear a student say he had little trouble with the test and had done the past exam posted online. “I wasn’t happy about my performance on the exam. I definitely felt it would have been a huge advantage to have seen the problems beforehand,” said...