Word: tower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support sending 18- to 22-year-old American ground forces to fight and die in Kosovo also argue that they can not support the return of ROTC to campus because it makes certain 18- to 22-year-old Harvard students "feel uncomfortable." The self-righteous arrogance of the ivory tower never ceases to amaze...
...beckons us in with the promise of learning and personal intellectual growth. We merely need to enter. But once inside, we find that there is a price to the privilege of intellectual growth: the responsibility to improve ourselves and society. We entered, or perhaps scaled, the Iv(or)y Tower for ourselves, or so we thought, but we are to leave for the purpose of helping others...
...outside. That is, the inscription can be read to say that just as "to grow in wisdom" gave us a reason to enter, "to better serve thy country and thy kind" can give us a reason to leave. As much as we may want to stay in the Ivory Tower, the gate can give us the motivation to say farewell to Harvard and to move on to the next stage in life...
...mini-tower computers were stolen from the Science Center some time last week, according to Peggy A. McNamara, a spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department...
Mather: Boasts "size does matter" on the front and "bigger is better" on the back, along with a graphic of the Mather Tower. Wasn't this ad campaign lifted from last spring's "Godzilla"? Guess when you're an enormous eyesore, you go with your strengths...