Word: fittingness
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The funding shortfall was exacerbated by questionable management decisions. Several million dollars were spent on high-priced consultants and on fitting out a temporary headquarters that later had to be torn down. The financial problems became so severe that in 1992 the entire four-member programming staff was fired. It...
It seems as if it were ages ago now, but Chang began Harvard in 1989 in the sciences, enrolling in Math 21a and 21b and Physics 11a because "I thought that was where respect came from." But in a fitting decision to change, he decided to concentrate in governement because...
Asked later what he was thinking, he replied: "I was just thinking how fitting it was that the season would end like that. Finally, in the end, The Game was like all those other games--it just got away."
Star Trek ended its final season last week and the closing down of the USS Enterprise seemed as fitting a way as any to usher out the Class of 1994. Hardly a trekkie, I am nevertheless, quite easily seduced by the fantastic, especially if the temptress comes equipped with transporter...
Education is meant to do an impossible thing, to provide a mortal creature with a sense of the infinite. By so doing it would innoculate students against their limitations while fitting them to those limitations. This is one reason a Harvard education has taken me so long to get used...