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...food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted she had the plague and whose neighbors stoned her to death. Your leisure is occupied by the funerals you attend every Saturday. You go to bed fearing adults your age will not live into their 40s. You and your neighbors and your political and popular leaders act as if nothing is happening...
However, Davidson was pleased Henry agreed to promote the panel to athletes and coaches. Henry sent an e-mail to all coaches urging them to attend the panel because it is important to "[their] roles as teachers, mentors and coaches...
...choosing to attend Harvard, we chose to surround ourselves with the academic upper crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...
What's more, students attend Harvard for various reasons. Some came here for the intellectually engaging environment, some for the opportunities inevitably associated with the Harvard name and some for the outside-the-classroom experience. Many undergraduates devote themselves entirely to academics--they sleep in the terminal room, sweat over the titles of their papers and do little else beyond the four or five or six classes in which they enrolled at the beginning of the semester. At the other end of the spectrum lie the Harvard students who follow the guidance of Mark Twain and never let their schooling...
...professors and teaching fellows are not doing it for us. It makes a mockery of our institution and our diplomas, not to mention the dogged efforts of those students who devote themselves wholly to academics, that so many of us supposedly perform so well. We made the choice to attend Harvard, and once here, we make the choice how to spend our time and direct our efforts. And if our goal is to preserve the academic integrity of this institution, which has made Harvard such a respectable pillar of higher education, then we had best puff our chests and deflate...