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...ease and security of reaping the type of success that a Harvard education can offer presents a serious challenge to intellectual and ideological resistance. In his day, Emerson realized that the scorn of one's peers was a major barrier to nonconformity; this pressure is still a moderating force today. Yet, Emerson still attempted to articulate a philosophy of radical autonomy. Aspects of his vision remain meaningful, especially his declaration of hope for the future: "I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency... Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment...
...center of some of the most significant changes in the character of the College this century. While the G.I. Bill forever changed the regional, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of the College, the beginnings of "joint-education" offered new opportunities to women and broke down the most significant educational barrier between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...These accusations are not totally warranted--all a pre-med is, after all, is just someone who wants to help others later in life. The fact that people often have a negative perception of this (mostly) innocent class of students is but additional evidence for the rigidity of the barrier between, for example, Physics and Philosophy (subjects which, in fact, are quite close to each other in a more than purely alphabetical sense...
...very spirit-boosting," senior Kay Lee said. "It was this idea of breaking a barrier. If we concentrated on what we were doing, we could break through...
Ironically, the biggest barrier to making such care available is the perception that efforts to treat addiction are wasted. Yet treatment for drug abuse has a failure rate no different from that for other chronic diseases. Close to half of recovering addicts fail to maintain complete abstinence after a year--about the same proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension who fail to comply with their diet, exercise and medication regimens. What doctors who treat drug abuse should strive for, says Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is not necessarily a cure but long-term care...