Word: distinguishedness
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The remainder of the Summer School students are composed of Harvard College undergraduates, who, during term time, could take equivalent courses for no extra charge, but still opt to pay thousands over the summer to sit in the same classrooms—although often with less distinguished professors at the...
Bowing to realism, summer internships involve mostly up-front deposits in the Bank of Upward Mobility, with withdrawals to be made later: fast cars, slower women, issues of The New Yorker that recline, untouched, with a distinguished air on the coffee table until they are casually replaced the following week...
“Jay has been a distinguished member of the HBS faculty for 35 years, and is widely admired within and beyond Harvard for his intelligence and judgment, his organizational savvy, and his devotion to HBS and to Harvard as a whole,” Summers wrote.
Before arriving at Harvard, Gilligan had already distinguished himself both academically and athletically.
Lincoln's political resume was meager, his learning derided, and his election considered a stroke of luck. And yet the prairie lawyer from Springfield would emerge the undisputed captain of his distinguished Cabinet, earning the respect of colleagues who had originally disdained him, and become, as Whitman wrote, "the grandest...