Word: anxiousness
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...test prep courses simply because "everybody else is doing it." This competitive impulse contradicts the experience of most students I know, who have various backgrounds and legitimate needs to raise their scores--whether they are smart Harvard overachievers or not. Test prep does not merely defray anxiety for anxious over-achievers, as suggested, but often aptly levels the playing field for students who benefit, without emptying their wallets or hindering personal strategies...
...stay tuned, heeding the words of Einstein, who wrote to a child anxious about the fate of the world, "As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait...
After starting the season with 20 consecutive games on the road, the Crimson is anxious to return to the friendly confines of O'Donnell field for its home opener this Saturday...
Four U.S. presidents and more than 200 years--gone. The Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard's oldest social organization, has fallen on an era that doesn't want it. Mired in debts, the club is getting squeezed by a University anxious for real estate and utterly opposed to the elite living that the Pudding has come to epitomize. Trouble had long been brewing: club members, confined to smaller quarters and deprived of liquor, increasingly scoffed at the prospect of paying high dues and remaining in the club. In the end, the club's trustees agreed to a Harvard buyout...
...There's a lot a stake apart from pride. Celera and its investors are looking to make a mint from the project(and were rewarded Thursday with a 25 percent jump in the company's stock price); the public scientists, meanwhile, are anxious to preserve their funding. And that might explain in part why the members of the Human Genome Project, which is funded by National Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking...