Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson Key is to present Harvard: architecturally, academically, anecdotally and socially. Students and parents, domestic and international tourists alike, are given almost identical tours. During an hour-long stroll around campus, the guides point out historic buildings and statues, discuss admissions criteria and academic standards and highlight extracurricular organizations...
Hecht says her strategy is to offer some personal anecdotes to give students a perspective of Harvard life while not alienating them. Tour guides say they have to remove themselves from the day-to-day life and present Harvard in its entirety--which can often be difficult for them to accomplish...
...these efforts will come during the next few decades, as the baby boomers turn geriatric and the rest of society has to bear the enormous burden of caring for them in what is likely to be an era of dwindling resources. At that point, the mutual understanding gained from present-day initiatives may provide a crucial buffer to bitter generational conflicts...
...theory behind my present happiness is a small, intimate, flexible department. Small departments offer professors you see regularly and even speak to. They give you the opportunity to change your mind for or against writing a thesis, and sometimes they provide you with your own mailbox. Best of all, they want...
...like ice cream it's fine," Nye told The Crimson, referring to his present administrative post, "but you're not sure if you want a diet of pure ice cream. And I haven't though over whether I really want that...