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...participate in community service, political campaigns, protests, Reserve Officer Training Corp, and the hundreds of other activities and organization on this campus has convinced me that the myth of this generation’s apathy and disinterest is just a myth. To be sure, we may be a little careerist. But while Harvard is accused of sending all of its talented students into the black hole of finance, it should be noted that nine percent of the class of 2008 applied to work for TFA, and many others are entering into careers of service. Harvard Law School launched its Public...
...this point that the movie heads south into predictable stupidity. She, of course, is an up-tight neat freak. He's an amiable slob. She's a careerist. He doesn't much care if he ever works again. She moves into his bachelor pad, which I don't really have to describe, since you've been there a dozen times - dirty dishes and empty beer bottles everywhere, the floors strewn with socks and underwear - and don't even think about the bathroom. She has a long scene where she tries to teach him the virtues of putting the toilet seat...
...apocryphally?) spoke the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, a man with witticisms and grandfatherly maxims in no short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born from Sixties sanctimony, but it was correct in its observation that socialism...
...Politics, too, admits of a wide range of distinction. Democrats, Republicans, and libertarians all have active contingents on campus; and despite the stultifying careerist influence of the Kennedy School, interesting political conversations can, with some effort, still...
...been our collective understanding that Harvard, as one of the founders of the Liberal Arts curriculum in American education, is among the first to defend a 4 year 'time out' for self-examination and broad intellectual growth versus the careerist, vocational orientation that can be typical of some lesser institutions across the country...