Word: upping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things are different now. Everything is hurry up and go. No one has time to linger at the big democratic center table at Bartley's Burger Cottage. Few diners slowly sip their lime rickeys while reading the sports page or striking up a conversation with a stranger sitting at the...
Then there's the whole issue of setting priorities. With the fourth meal, Harvard says to students: Your work is everything. If it takes 18 hours a day to complete, then trim back extraneous details like eating and sleeping and get to it! You never know who may be staying...
Dining diversity eliminates the need for actually conversing with a wide range of classmates, people with whom a student may not have much in common--at least not at first gulp. With dining options closely resembling a "cruise ship," Harvard undergraduates can indeed cruise in and cruise out without ever...
One hopes that when the deans meet that no one brings up two old dreamers, those roamers of open fields, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, and Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837. Writing of his fellow alumnus, Emerson observed, "He declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge...
Wilford spent his first three seasons riding the pine while classmate Rich Linden filled the starter's role. But when Linden struggled in the 1998 campaign and in this past off-season, Wilford stepped up to challenge Linden's grip on the job--and won.