Word: perfective
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...couldn’t think of a more perfect place to be that night than at that stadium...
...also named a co-recipient of the Gilda Radner Award, an honor that goes annually to two women most dedicated to promoting cancer awareness throughout the Boston area.And this season, Delaney-Smith also found time to guide a young Crimson squad from an abysmal nonconference performance to a near-perfect Ivy League season and 10th league championship.Despite Delaney-Smith’s extensive experience with Ivy competition—2007 marked her 25th season at Harvard—she knew that this go-around would be a little different. It featured a young team with no established star. It meant...
Harvard may not be as perfect as we desire, but neither is the real world...
...suspicion is that maybe I was sufficient precisely because I was sufficient. I didn’t have a perfect résumé, but I offered a genuine argument that Harvard had what I needed. Maybe the admissions committee liked me just because I wasn’t what David Brooks has famously described as an “organization...
...friendly place, neither for minorities nor for the rest of us. Along with the academic and social pressures that come with being a student here, there is the additional pressure of presenting a certain façade. In Kuumba, we didn’t have to pretend to be perfect or unburdened. We sang out our frustrations and stresses, and we asked for emotional and spiritual support in closing circle at the end of every rehearsal. By singing and praying together, we tried to heal each other and ourselves...