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Word: wishfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...totally organized, and incredibly motivated, then you can do well in school and great in extracurriculars," says a freshman in Navy ROTC who did not wish to be identified. "But you have to give up a lot in socializing, talking with and meeting people which is the most important part about Harvard...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Preparing Today for the Military Tomorrow | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...plans to telephone all affected students and present them with three options: they can have their tests scored and reported normally if they wish; take a retest on May 17--a specially scheduled date--or June 7 or 8, the next regularly scheduled date; or get a full test fee refund...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Just What You Kids Love Most | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...students. Moreover, because other Radcliffe programs attract few undergrads, this state of affairs suggests that the "College" has nothing better to do for the mass of its students than to throw an annual party. Radcliffe needs to do better for its students than a party, should the institution wish to make a reasonable claim to the title of College...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Rejuvenating Radcliffe | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...that Smooth Talk is the sort of movie that everyone would like if he just let himself get into it. But it's also the sort of movie we want to resist--we'd rather not believe in Connie's naivete or Arnold's sangfroid, and we don't wish to remember that growing up was as difficult for us as it is for Connie. We only stop resisting when the surreal elements, like Arnold's maniacal unctuousness, take over. And when we submit, we're scared...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Cruising Back to Adolescence | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...powers that be for the right to build our own set of shanties in the Yard. These will replicas of the Quad to protest our being Quaded, to request that Harvard divest from itself for letting the Quad get into bad condition. In our "Statement of Policy" we wish to stress that our premise for our demands is that Harvard has let much of the Quad become rundown, has threatened to cut-off badly needed renovations for lack of funds, and has made that Quad situation much worse than it already...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quad Shanties | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

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