Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full members of its community. It was Radcliffe which brought Harvard professors down Garden Street to teach classes to the best and brightest of women students, Radcliffe whose presence eventually caused Harvard to make classes coeducational and to allow women to live in the Yard and Houses. Female undergraduates today study in Lamont without a second thought, but our freedom of access to that library was forged by the integration of Radcliffe women in 1967. Radcliffe's influence on the role of women at Harvard should be indelibly marked on the University's history...
...every other member of the Class of 1999, I do not have plans for next year. I don't have a job. I have not been admitted to graduate school. I did not win a fellowship. I have purchased no plane tickets for a Grand Tour of Europe. Beginning today, I am simply unemployed...
...with that famed real world no longer looming in the distance, I have at last realized what I really will miss about college. While I can and will keep in touch with many of the great people I have met here, starting today I lose the only bubble I have ever really known and the only bubble I have thus far been willing to accept. Like many of the Class of 1999, I will probably enter graduate school in years to come. But we will never again be here--we will never again be simply students facing a world...
...that four of our classmates would not live to see our senior year. Yes, Harvard Yard is occupied by ghosts: not the ghosts of the Cabots and the Lowells, but the ghosts of the people who we used to know and the people who we used to be. Today, they are intentionally placing us once more in the same spot where we began our years here, and today the president and deans of Harvard will try again to make us nostalgic and to offer us advice. But this time, we aren't the people sitting in the back who have...
...blamed excessive requirements for the number of hours billed per week as one reason that lawyers today are less enthused about their professions than were lawyers in years past...