Word: staleness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only will undergraduates have to fight for physical expansion in the year ahead, but intellectual expansion as well. The curricular review which is about to take off in full force gives me hope that we can breathe life into a curriculum that feels stale and ready for retirement. A new general education requirement allowing non-concentrators to learn about the most relevant issues of the future in the disciplines they do not study but ought to know might lead to a domino effect for higher education across the country. Better advising, new incentives for faculty to teach interdisciplinary courses...
...library, which remains open 24-hours throughout reading period and exams, their world is one of stale smells and purple carpets, high-calorie bagged snacks and pilfered blankets...
...HUDS can do until the renovations are finally completed is to end the unfair interhouse restrictions and allow all students to eat where they will most enjoy their meals. After all, without good food, Harvard students, like Molière, know that eventually even the finest of words becomes stale...
...nails the claustrophobic, poisonous atmosphere of academia, but the recounting of life in the bamboo tower quickly grows didactic and stale. The reader tires of it faster than Jian does. It doesn't help that Jian is an affecting character but too often a lifeless narrator; like a typical grad student, he often misses the greater point for the stubborn detail. He watches his future father-in-law ignited by a Lear-like madness and wonders obtusely, "Perhaps he should be treated by a psychiatrist; acupuncture or acupressure might help...
Others argue the former restaurant had gone stale, and the new location had a more vibrant image...