Word: sit
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...Assembly would be transitioning to, and—as McDonough notes—there were conservative elements on campus and even on the Committee itself that put the prospect of any real development in doubt. “They wanted to put on their slippers, get their pipes out, sit in front of the fire and talk about student government and not do anything,” he says...
When Patricia A. Graham first arrived at Harvard in 1974, women made up around 3 percent of tenured faculty and could not eat in the main dining room of the Faculty Club or sit with tenured male faculty...
When Smith assumes the deanship on July 15, he will be the third dean to sit in University Hall's second-floor corner office in just over a year...
...certain outlook such that no matter how much Harvard invests in us, we’re not going to be satisfied. It is as if rather than even concerning ourselves with actively trying to be happy, we want to be made happy. The majority of the student population can sit back and say to either the administration, or members of the student body, “okay, organize something for us, and let’s see if we like...
...same time, maybe we cannot just expect to sit back and be educated and thus be inspired, empowered, or made happy. Perhaps no amount or “brand” of education can ever do that. There is a lot of hype that Harvard—this huge, shining name—is going to make us (and our lives, our futures, our parents) happy...