Word: preciousness
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...controversy. He claims that since the 19th century, Harvard has sought diversity as can be seen in quotations from its best-known presidents--Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, James B. Conant '14--all of whom actually used the precious word. Like an administrator ably deflecting public anxiety, and wary of increasing what he means to allay, Rudenstine reassures any skeptics that, with affirmative action, Harvard is merely doing what it has always done, which surely was done, and is still being done, for good reason...
Depressingly few, the so-called higher critics found. There are only two or three references to Jesus in six pagan or Jewish sources, providing precious little corroborating data. Even if the standard for authenticity were agreement between the Gospels, there is less of that than one might imagine: the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan are just two of several parables that appear in only one version. By 1926, Rudolf Bultmann of Germany's University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history...
...staff acknowledges that the military's ban on openly gay cadets is unfair, and yet it would still allow ROTC to use precious Harvard Yard space during Commencement Week. This strikes us as inconsistent and wrong; Harvard should not give any kind of support to organizations or programs that discriminate against its own students...
...newfangled contraption unattended after lighting it. Such irresponsible behavior sparked a dangerous fire. From this instance and a more minor one this year, as well as one per year for many years back, originates a decision to ban menorah use. Students are no longer to be trusted with their precious ritual our of a concern for fire safety. Our problem with the menorah ban emerges not from this legitimate concern, but out of the dean's unreasonable response...
...each person playing his part while attending to a common score. A country with a sense of seasons has greater respect for the old, and a clearer sense of tomorrow. That is why newspapers in Japan that meticulously chart the dates on which the leaves will fall may be precious in not just the derogatory sense. And why a Japanese would understand why this most autumnal of meditations is being published at the very time when most of us--in the north, at least--are exulting in the first days of spring...