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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Television Star BILL COSBY at the University of South Carolina, Columbia: "As a parent, I know that four years of college bring nothing more than a learned person in terms of books, tests, notes. But that maturity, that ability to read other human beings, that maturity to make a decision based on what is needed as opposed to what you want--there's no degree for that. It's a happy time for you. It's a time to get it together, collect your family, collect the love and then collect yourselves, because now comes the maturity of self...
Secretary of Education WILLIAM BENNETT at the Citadel, Charleston, S.C.: "Isaiah says, 'All our works are nothing--our molten images are empty wind.' There is support for theoretical pessimism. But practically, operationally, you should not bring such an attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer...
...Fourth, bring a modicum of morality into your decision-making process. You didn't have to take a Moral Reasoning course for nothing, although that's a thought that might come to mind when looking at Harvard. The University administration only reacts to pressure from the outside before examining the moral aspects of its decisions. It took a year of excessive student pressure in the late '70s before Harvard even considered creating a body to advise it on shareholder responsibility...
...Working with your government to bring about a better foreign policy is not shameful; it is consistent with a scholar's highest duty," the top spy told a restricted audience of about 150 professors and reporters...
...Lakhdhir says she does not believe theseproblems will bring the council down. "I don'tbelieve in three years then death," she says,referring to a pattern that has plagued Harvard'sother student governments...