Word: spirited
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...hopes that every class of concentrators will ultimately be able to take such a field trip and work with telescopes first-hand, and that in the future such trips can be taken to international observatories so that students can also experience a different language and culture.Wanting to embody the spirit of general education and allow concentrators to pursue honors, do a thesis, take a semester abroad, or participate in extracurricular activities, the department has also reduced the total number of concentration requirements from 16 to 12, said Charbonneau.Where the current concentration serves to prepare students for graduate school...
...YORK—Coming into the Harvard baseball team’s doubleheader with Columbia (4-16, 2-0 Ivy) on Saturday, the Crimson (2-16, 0-2) found itself sharing the diamond with a kindred spirit, albeit for all the wrong reasons.Each team arrived at the onset of the Ivy League season reeling from an extensive and difficult non-conference slate, and equipped with only two wins to its name and the sliver of hope that materializes when there is reason for optimism that the worst is over.But while the Lions took the beginning of Ancient Eight play...
...MySpace and Facebook differ: The rival Web sites had come to embody the two competing visions of digital identity online. MySpace represented the freewheeling spirit of the Web, where anonymity allows people to experiment with their identity and express their views freely. In contrast, Facebook represented a more structured view of online identity, where people authenticate their offline identity in the hopes of creating a community of trust...
...fact, there are two cyclic waves in American history: one for politics and the general national spirit, the other for economic growth and contraction. Think of the two wave systems as running along the same timeline but perpendicular to each other - politics on the horizontal, weaving left to right; economics on the vertical, weaving up and down. Each affects the other, but unpredictably. A political or economic era can be as brief as 10 years or as long as a quarter-century, but the politics and economics don't move obviously in sync. Prosperity, for instance, can reinforce the "natural...
Second Verse, Same as the First Sixty-eight years ago, a founder of this magazine, Henry Luce, published an essay in LIFE celebrating a national history that had "teemed with manifold projects and magnificent purposes ... It is in this spirit that all of us are called, each to his own measure of capacity, and each in the widest horizon of his vision, to create the first great American Century." And so we did. The question now is how far we can extend our heyday of manifold projects and magnificent purposes. Golden ages and empires do come...