Word: warms
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...Street tend to attract undergraduates who are somewhat rough around the edges. An article in GQ magazine in the late 1980s described the atmosphere at the paper as a maelstrom of egos and ambition. To a great extent, this remains true to this day. There are not too many warm fuzzy feelings floating about...
...late January, Harvard took on Brown in what amounted to a warm-up for the all-important Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet the following week. The Crimson doubled up Brown, 163.5-78.5, and Shevchik had a breakthrough meet, which included setting a personal best in the 200 backstroke...
...salad days of the bull market may now be but a warm memory; amid whispers that the technology boom is at an end, the technology-heavy NASDAQ stock index has retreated from its previously high levels. Yet dreams of electronic success still tempt many into investments--universities included. In recent months, the College has made significant steps to encourage students who wish to participate in the technology gold rush and start their own companies. The decision is praiseworthy, as Harvard should enable students to pursue their interests to the fullest extent compatible with its academic mission. However, Harvard should...
...second incentive is a sense of competition with Stanford. That university, having been carried to greatness by its warm weather and proximity to Silicon Valley, has been Harvard's electronic bugbear, threatening to draw away students with promises of high technology and easy access to venture capital. Stanford has promoted technology (and especially the commercialization thereof) as its specific forte, and the recent appointment of computer scientist and provost John L. Hennessy as its next president was widely seen as an effort to capitalize on this reputation...
...thing that has occurred at Yale over the years is that students develop early and obviously warm loyalties to their colleges, rather than to their freshman dorms," Nathans writes in an e-mail message. "Thus I gather that the cohesiveness of groups in the freshman dormitories is far less than it traditionally has been here...