Word: cherishing
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...original Hasty Pudding Club gives its name to two distinct entities today, Hasty Pudding Theatricals (the nation’s oldest theatrical troupe) and Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard’s oldest social organization). The Pudding was conceived in 1795 to “cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism,” according to its charter...
...collective memory of the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. It has haunted the Chinese for decades. People were massacred, cities bombed, children orphaned and a country defeated. The invasion was the worst insult to China in the 20th century. As a civilized people, the Chinese practice tolerance and cherish forgiveness, but we cannot tolerate or forgive the revision of history by Japanese war criminals and their descendants. Can wartime executioners be absolved and honored? Can genocide be omitted from history textbooks? In postwar Japan they can. Japan still owes China an apology. How can we leave the past behind...
Most important thing you’ve learned at Harvard so far: The friendships that I have formed here are priceless and it is really unfortunate when they are squandered, so I have learned to cherish these friendships forever...
...cherish the democratic process should continue to feel that personal challenge. And students, in particular, can assume as vital a role today as Lieberman and his classmates did 40 years...
...favorite current rock bands sleep with copies of Sgt. Pepper under their pillows, and I cherish few pastimes as fondly as that of imagining my parents (or myself) taking an active part in each and every social, political and cultural watershed of that era. I’m as proud that my father was tear-gassed marching against the war in Washington in October 1967 (his second date with my mother, a year or so later, was at another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics...