Word: seeking
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...successful here, life can be a struggle. Student advising and counseling, both personal and academic, are like most things at Harvard, from class-room instruction to social life. The quality is wildly variable, and the best quality can be found by those who have the patience and perseverance to seek it for themselves, with a little bit of luck thrown...
...appeal does not question the institution of tenure," he wrote. "It is fair consideration for tenure that I seek. Without tenure, perhaps even Professor Nesson would hide or lose his independence...
...When the undergraduates give their solemn word, the graduates will trust them but seek to verify," he says...
Over the past four years, as first a reporter and then College editor at The Crimson, I have seen columnists, student groups leaders and individual students define Harvard primarily as an institution, responsible--for better or (usually) worse--for all aspects of students' lives. Students who seek to change this usually unbending institution quickly learn that the Harvard that affects undergraduates is not one amorphous blob, but three interrelated but highly independent bodies of University, Faculty and College. Under this conception of Harvard, every question has an external answer, every problem has a responsible administrator. Harvard employees need a living...
...onto the editorial page but is commonly voiced in the dining halls and by senior gift representatives. We are Harvard, says this view; Harvard is its students. Those who take this view do not usually dispute the litany of institutional complaints voiced by the first group, but seek to de-emphasize them. Sure, it's annoying that the institution with the $11 billion endowment is too cheap to pay for a student center, or even a decent Springfest band. But Harvard rightly remains at the top of U.S. News rankings because what counts is not whether we have...