Word: sad
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...themselves by income and race. This year the Supreme Court ruled that voluntary school-integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., violated the rights of students to be judged on individual merit even if the ruling means that many schools remain segregated by race and class. It was a sad decision, acknowledging the defeat of the ideals and aspirations of Little Rock and the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that made segregation illegal. But it should also be hailed for acknowledging new realities: first, even as we celebrate what happened 50 years ago in the glory days...
...their enthusiasm and excitement. Every year, memories of the Elm Yard safety talk in September 2004—when the mere mention of Canaday sent my entryway into hysterics—will fade, with no new freshmen to prompt those memories of my own freshman year.And this makes me sad, because I really do love this place. For me, it’s not just Annenberg, or the sweep of the New Yard, or all the other obvious things to love about Harvard. What really gets me are the subtleties that I didn’t notice...
...outsider that took the property, then Harvard should step up its security,” Dong said. “If it was actually somebody in the House, that just makes me really sad...
...size, dresser size, desk size, and every other Harvard-issued dorm accessory. “One closet is so small, we can’t fit hangers in it the right way,” said Mariah A. Bush ’10, opening a door to reveal a sad little closet in which coats were hanging with their lapels facing the opening. And Bush wasn’t even blessed with Dunster House’s newest space-saving technique: beds with extra high legs accommodating two pint-sized dressers that fit into the space below. Jonathan K. Nguyen...
...Peer Advising Fellows were instructed to advise freshmen to pick classes assuming the current Core curriculum will be in place for the remainder of their time at Harvard, on the hope that their Core classes will be grandfathered into the new program. These sad developments are a stark and disheartening reminder of just how little enthusiasm or optimism Faculty, students, and administrators have that the new General Education curriculum will be a substantive change. By not familiarizing the incoming freshman class with Gen Ed as well as the Core, Harvard has betrayed its discomfort and confusion with the new program...