Word: presented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's Associate Vice President for Capital Giving William H. Boardman Jr. says fundraisers--whether volunteer or UDO--never force their donors to give. Instead they present Harvard and its initiatives to alumni and friends, hoping they will be inspired to give...
Last Friday, hundreds of Harvard undergraduates flocked to the Gordon Track and Tennis Center to participate in the Harvard Career Forum. This annual event, featuring previous undergraduates recruiting present college students, is a symptom of the inescapable crisis that marks every undergraduate's college experience--the eventual job search. "What do I want to do with my life?" The question, asked absently when one is 8 or 14, becomes frighteningly real as graduation date approaches...
...seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
...fair, the impetus comes mostly from the firms that are recruiting. Local non-profits, magazines, school districts and Congress have few built-in mechanisms or resources to come here and woo us. OCS does attempt to present a variety of other options (or at least, direct us to the ubiquitous "binders in the downstairs reading room"). We should expect more of OCS, though. Compared to the convenience of the recruiting process, finding information about other fields is a much more arduous a task. Students who pursue other fields must be largely selfguided...
...those present at the House of Blues last Monday and Tuesday night for Ying Yang, Victor Wooten's solo project, were witness to a unique interplay between a band that loved playing and an audience that loved listening...