Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From a Harvard standpoint, it might not seem so odd that the College administrators have employed a closed-door process for choosing the undergraduate representatives to a new committee which will oversee the Trust. The Trust, a powerful group created in the wake of the merger, will dole out nearly $20,000 in annual funding to student groups interested in women's and gender issues...
...cold reason" of a science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed-of. It was their success that made the wooly scholarship of the Scholastics and their intractable debates about the concrete existence of general categories seem ridiculous and pointless. The Enlightenment was, above all, the triumph of reasoning over scholarship...
...think that they show some of the ignorance behind homophobia without being offensive," he wrote in an e-mail message. "The posters seem to be a powerful statement that homophobia is still here, that no one wins with homophobia...
...fact that black and Hispanic students madethe greatest gains in this year's early actioncycle would seem to signal progress in theCollege's attempt to have the early action poolmore closely match the demographic make-up of theentering class...
...wish you all well, individually and communally, and urge you to hold fast to your principles, however lofty and unattainable they may seem," he wrote...