Word: altruism
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That more students are interested in becoming teachers than brokers may have less to do with high-minded ideals than with a greater intellectual interest in history than in money management. To reduce every college generations' career choices to a question of money versus altruism trivializes student's judgment and motives. It shows contempt for the self-relience that American colleges purport to teach...
Sure, the new type of clubs pad resumes and make "networking" easier in the dreaded Real World. But most of them exist because most students do possess altruism along with personal ambition. Public service groups involve about a quarter of Harvard's students, and the rest of the clubs give something to the rest of the college each year, whether it's a performance, an exhibition, a literary magazine or a greater understanding of one's fellow students...
Offering one-year fellowships to Black South Africans is nothing but an attempt to quiet pro-divestment complaints and make Harvard appear a bastion of altruism...
...keenly interested in attracting andadmitting candidates who not only give ample proofof academic prowess, but also show evidence ofsuch personal qualities as honesty, fairness,compassion, altruism, leadership, and initiativein their high school years," reads the pamphlet'stext. "We place great value in a candidate'scapacity to move beyond the limits of personalachievement to involvement in the life of thecommunity at large...
...students who are turning away from business may feel that the salad days of corporate deal making are gone, but college advisers also detect a heightened sense of altruism among today's seniors. Says Victoria Ball, director of Brown's career-planning service: "Maybe it's the negative image of yuppies, but students are realizing that money isn't everything in life." Still, most of them will be making more of it than their predecessors...