Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Make every party pleasant...
There are hundreds, possibly thousands of single and double rooms in the catacombs of this magnificent edifice which could easily be converted into pleasant living quarters. And parents staying there would be able to assist in their children's registration and visit popular courses as "Justice" without ever going outside. This feature could increase the school's tourism revenues substantially during Boston's cruel winter months...
Julia Cohen, a Winthrop House economics concentrator, said, "It came as a pleasant surprise. I was happy about it even though I had never really set a goal...
Many of those elected with Julia mirrored her reaction. Most showed pleasant surprise and said that election to Phi Beta Kappa had never been one of their goals. "Why would anyone set Beta as a goal? It is the work that goes into it that matters," said Celia Wren of Quincy House said...
Doesn't the fact that the commonly-held perception--and now all-too confirmed view--that what is missing at Harvard is a coherent, consistent attention to undergraduate education suggest action should be considered, something beyond pleasant acknowledgement? It's time we placed student's concerns above tradition, a busy faculty's convenience or an active student body's impressive dedication to work in the face of disappointing odds...