Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably doesn't make all that much difference. It simply means that Harvard's Admissions Office will be deluged with growing numbers of Applications, the vast majority of them frivolous. The less obvious side-effect, though, is that Harvard is effectively lowering its standards for admission. The quest for diversity should not consist of recruiting those who, absent the Common Application, would view applying to Harvard as too much of a chore. If that is considered elitism, then by all means, Harvard should be elitist...
...least one administrator, Master of Adams House Robert J. Kiely, has stood behind the students in their quest for choice...
...little luck is what freshman Lara Jacobson is hoping for this summer in her own quest for the Olympic Games...
...their quest to downsize government, theRepublicans have considered eliminating certainprograms entirely. The Senate, for example,proposes to eliminate the Department of Commerce,while the House proposes to go once step furtherand eliminate the Departments of Energy andEducation as well...
This being an academic conference, Ruth couldn't escape a little secondhand psychoanalysis. "The Babe's id appears to have been relatively unimpeded in its quest for satisfaction," maintained Adam Cox of Lehigh University's psychology department. "Through sex and food, Ruth nurtured the unresolved aspects of his infantile self with abandon." Buddy Hassett, who played for Ruth when he coached Brooklyn in 1938, revealed the true secret of the Babe's gluttony: "He had a great digestive system." As the Babe might have said if he had had the vocabulary: deconstruct that...