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Often, the burden of securing Harvard premises falls on students, according to Ellison...
...library and the community it sustains emerge in response to the central anxiety of Harvard life: the failure to measure up. Under Lamont’s 24-hour fluorescent lighting, no one need bear this ponderous burden alone...
Just two hours into her collegiate career, the highly-touted recruit was now the one to shoulder Harvard’s offensive burden...
...rather the long-term consequences of budgetary pressure that should be most feared. As long as Harvard does not lose sight of its ultimate objectives during this period and continues to invest in its future and its community, the budgetary crisis will be remembered as only a temporary burden...
...second lesson: Embrace risk—it is inescapable. You worry, I know, about the burden of Harvard, about “the pressure to be extraordinary” within a narrow definition of success, as one of you told me. “What will I say at my fifth reunion?” you wonder. What is “extraordinary enough”? It is, quite simply, having the courage to write your own script. You can be a risk taker. In fact, as we have learned, you will be a risk taker whatever you choose because...