Word: brightest
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...better is an abdication of the College’s responsibility to those interested in popular fields ranging from English to biology. And to say that students must share the burden of reaching out to professors is at once correct and irrelevant. Harvard’s best and brightest undergraduates are not connecting with the University’s world-class faculty even though they excelled at precisely that in high school. Something is fundamentally wrong at the institutional level.Harvard has begun to address the problem. There are some bright spots: a few wonderful professors who transcend the divide...
...after this whole to-do, it is that Harvard’s next president—whatever other qualities he or she holds—must have the same zeal and care for undergraduates that Larry does. If Larry is a king, as his critics allege, that is the brightest jewel in his crown.Adam M. Guren ’08, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Eliot House...
...hourly bells, I would contemplate my travels beyond these steely gates: my post-Harvard future. In between rushed hellos and smiles of recognition, I would recall my loftier aspirations, the now-shriveling kernels of my boundless childhood dreams. Unsatisfying classes and inaccessible advising cast shadows on my brightest desires...
...some of our country’s brightest students and future leaders, it is time to change that. We must not wait to be asked to participate, but to seize the opportunity. The country is waiting for something, and our generation must help by getting involved. It doesn’t matter what our political views may be. Too small a percentage of us care what people’s political views...
...never received such a call. I spent years in business until one day I realized that no one was ever going to call. No invitation was ever going to be issued. I had been made a victim of that debilitating malady that befalls so many of our best and brightest: the Red Carpet Syndrome...