Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, the plethora of committees and task forces devoted to the solemn tasks of establishing computer "priorities" and exploring new computer "possibilities." Thus, the frantic rush to put together the requisite software so that the Mac can be used in computer science courses this fall. Thus, the talk about how Harvard is going to link up all these pe's so that students can talk to each other, retrieve large chunks of information from data banks, and otherwise precipitate the next Scientific Revolution...
...their college stint as the best years of their lives. Given the smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York hostess would gleefully trade a year's worth of big-time parties to momentarily possess...
Spotted on campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...
...plethora of tutors which each House appoints to write these letters has taken away from the masters' role in this process. Up until the 1960s, according to Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of housing and senior tutor of Leverett, the master was the one who took it upon himself to recommend seniors for jobs in firms, often firms run by graduates of the same House...
...plethora of confusing, contradictory lower court decisions on the separation of church and state have precluded any coherent interstate-supported busing for parochial students is constitutional; but somehow state funds for field trips are not. The purchase of somehow state funds for field tripos are not. The purchase of textbooks for parochial students is permissible; buying a film projector is not. Churches and religious schools are constitutionally tax exempt; tuition tax credits...