Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What? You don't remember? My fifteen minutes. Towards the end of Show 9, as the crew grew restless and the host began to run short on ad libs, all eyes drew to me. But, alas, with my luck, my moment of glory, of course, was bathed in a tub of sarcasm. "And look back there," the host suddenly said, after giving appropriate recognition to his researcher, who sat adjacent to me behind the set. "That's Aaron. He goes to Harvard. At the X Games, we have people from Harvard doing menial, behind the scenes work, while we have...
...Hooker had already left a legacy for Harvard, in a 1626 sermon where he proclaimed, "Every tub must stand upon its own bottom...
Harvard, Puritan institution that it was, took Hooker's advice to heart and adopted his phrase as the motto that would govern the separate parts it established over the years. Each school of the University--referred to as a "tub" by Harvard administrators--has its own faculty, its own endowment and its own dean to run it. Each tub is autonomous and independent...
Rudenstine has also pushed a series of "interfaculty initiatives," academic programs that jump from tub to tub in pulling together their faculty. The initiatives, in such areas as the environment and ethics in the professions, are run by the provost's office, which Rudenstine directly presides over, rather than by the deans...
...want to tromp all the way to the multi-prestidigiplex to get squeezed out by a bunch of geeks dressed up like Boba Fett -- on a Thursday afternoon in June. Oh, most of us will see it eventually, although the early intimidation factor could make "Titanic" a tough tub to catch. The betting here is that all those other movies whose schedulers were so worried about going up against Lucas's Memorial Day Dominator are going to do quite well. And when we do see it, we'll probably come out of it a little dazed and a little disappointed...