Word: quiets
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...seems, however, that in the College’s three centuries of existence, the prioritization of teaching has always been a topic of controversy and quiet resignation. Witness President Eliot’s comments from over a century before Bok’s, comments as true today as they were then: "There are a few men and women who look upon [teaching] as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession." If anything can be gleaned from Harvard’s history, it is that the quality of an undergraduate...
...disappointed” few. No institution (particularly an academic one) can endure if it dances to the headlines or follows fads—and those who know Faust and her scholarship are excited about her selection, and hopeful that the coming decades will be ones of intellectual renewal and quiet, steady accomplishment. May I suggest that the new president make it an early priority to raise the scholarly standards required of current undergraduates? It is no doubt a thankless task to undertake, but one that would have the minor benefit of improved commentary in The Crimson. DAVID S. GREWAL...
...Transfiguration of Vincent” were lost in the LP’s titular war. As a result, the album’s third song, “Human Punching Bag,” sounds vacuous, like a half-hearted attempt to recall the quiet beauty of “I’ll Be Yr Bird” on 2005’s “Transistor Radio.” Another boisterous cover, this time of country crooner Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s “Headed for a Fall,” closes the album. While...
...found themselves apart for the first time as Luke spent a week in Bangkok, and both realized they missed each other more than they may have expected. On September 20, 2006, when he had returned, they went to a Red Sox game and Amy noticed that Luke was unusually quiet. “I kind of got the vibe that he wanted to say something but couldn’t,” she says. Later that night, she decided to send him a message on facebook.com. Amy says the message read: “I think you like...
...high." Bayer says she has visited villages in the north of Afghanistan where the entire population is addicted to opium. Mothers in carpet weaving districts take opium to ease muscle aches earned from spending long days at the loom, and give it to their children to keep them quiet. Says Bayer: "There is no education, no awareness of the harm that opium causes. People here have been traumatized. If they can find something to relieve the pain, they will take...