Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time being, Director of the SchlesingerLibrary and former Smith College President MaryMaples Dunn will be relied upon to administer thatshot. She will take over as interim dean ofRadcliffe on July...
...frosh experience became clear to me, distilled into two essential truths: (1) this weekend, with its tours, jams and bashes would not really tell me anything about what my experience at Harvard would be like, and (2) I had no alternative but to make my decision based upon this weekend. Up until this point I had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place I was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of 'home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that I would have to find some alternate criterion...
...came to Harvard because my tour-guide had great sunglasses. I suppose I should be embarrassed by such an admission; I would hope to be more analytical, less superficial. Such a profound--some say life-changing--choice could not have been founded upon something as tenuous as appropriate eye wear. Nevertheless, sunglasses lay at the heart of the matter...
...frosh weekend began and ended dismally. Upon arrival I quickly shooed my dad away, determined to have a stab at college self-sufficiency. After calmly navigating the mess of paperwork, "warm fuzzies" and eager parents at the admissions office, I gratefully received my room assignment. At the time, the word "Currier" was just a name on paper--it did not signify "the Quad." My host had left me a message: I could drop off my things in her room but she wouldn't be there. Several inquiries and two wrong-turns later I found myself at the entrance to Currier...
...never actually been there myself, but a friend handed me an advertising card. "Fine Japanese Cuisine...Sugi features Six Tatami Rooms accommodating up to 20 people." What? There are at least 100 Sugi's on America Online. Sugi.net is a Web site. I hope to buy sugi.org upon graduation. Or maybe ganeshananthan.com. I'm torn. I'm pretty sure no one would ever make it to ganeshananthan.com because they'd forget that pesky second-to-last...