Word: droppingly
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Second, for all the professors Light describes patiently tapping their fingers and waiting for undergraduates just to "drop by," there are plenty of others who generously allot to students only one office hour per week--sometimes unannounced and sometimes shared by graduate students. There's no shortage of these guilty academics tucked away in plush Yard offices, and it's surprising that Light didn't hear about them, or if he did, that he didn't mention them...
...said at the Undergraduate Council meeting last Sunday, "There's always the possibility that you could come up with a better idea. You shouldn't let it drop if you're interested...
Lord's most indelible portraits involve the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution. An actress talks at length about being forced to drop out of a school for the gifted when her librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that...
...Silber said that in the Chelsea schoolstoday, more than half the students drop out orlack a background in English, and many of thestudents graduate functionally illiterate. Thesefigures reflect what Silber said is a steadydecline nationwide of primary and secondaryschooling that has taken place over the past 50 to60 years...
...Harvard has taken little direct actionto fight the drop in applications...