Word: whether
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think there's always pretty consistently tension--like whether there is supposed to be a stereo in the main room," he says...
...loudspeakers, I suddenly realized what was going on: Convocation for the Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, I sat down in the back and eavesdropped. And as I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that I was one of the only people there who could judge whether the first-years were hearing the truth...
...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 been through it all already. We will not know until many years later whether or not the speakers are right...
...connections and thinking that you gained here. But maybe it will be the moment when something that is distinctly not Harvard--even though you might have found that something here--becomes more important to you than Harvard. And when you succeed in taking what Harvard has given you, whether it was something you searched for or something you stumbled upon--you will manage to make it larger than Harvard, to make it into life. And maybe then you will be able to pass through Harvard Yard without too much nostalgia...
...After the glory of 1997, the question for 1998 was whether the program had acquired enough talent and enough of a winning attitude to stay strong...