Word: searchings
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...applied math concentrator, I was upset by the 39. The number 39 is ambivalent in search of an identity. Unlike its numerically more unique neighbors of 37 and 41, it isn't quite prime. It isn't quite 40, a number which resonates with a comforting sense of stability and roundness...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles makes Harvard's hiring policy even more like a search for the Men in Black: "The membership of tenure ad hoc committees and all the proceedings and documentation," he told The Crimson, "are, as they have always been, strictly confidential." Other universities have standing committees that determine tenure offers, but Knowles sure is right about Harvard. To determine the membership of the ad hoc committee that discussed Peter Berkowitz's tenure bid, for example, Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60, actually used a prominent private investigator...
...neared the end of his career in the mid-1960s and began restlessly preparing for retirement, the great achievements of his life--of which he was deeply proud--still seemed not wholly to satisfy him. He spent his last years in a search for the spiritual and emotional fulfillment he felt he had never fully achieved--a search so intense that he and Clare reportedly experimented occasionally with LSD, on the advice of friends who described it as a vehicle of awakening. At the end, in February 1967, when he died suddenly of a heart attack...
Since Lamont and Cabot Libraries became over-crowded during reading period last semester, students in search of an alternative study space have slowly been arriving at Langdell. During reading period, it's often undergraduates--not Law School students--that may be found reading beneath the dazzle of the library's twenty new chandeliers...
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