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Pellegrini, the BGLTSA's faculty advisor, will depart Harvard this spring after two years in her current position. She will assume a post at Barnard College in the fall...
...their migration. Romanians continuously begged for clothing and go sell it on the street, stole whatever they could from the common supply rooms so that humanitarian relief workers had to keep supplies locked up and were audacious enough simply to leave their children outside of doctor's offices and depart, expecting the doctors to care for their children. East Germany had no real asylum laws, which coupled with West Germany's generosity led refugees to promote Germany as the promised land to all of their suffering countrymen at home. This demonstrated what Fritz calls a "basic principle of migration...
...Enter to grow in wisdom / Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind...
...that is not how we are liable to read the inscription on the other side. Thinking of "Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind" as a conditional would make little sense. Instead, we read the second inscription as an imperative--as if Harvard is now imploring us to put the wisdom learned inside the Yard to practical effect. Put the two readings together, and you have a trap: Harvard beckons us in with the promise of learning and personal intellectual growth. We merely need to enter. But once inside, we find that there is a price...
...order to help ourselves. Still, there is an "out" in the inscription for those who will be leaving Harvard this spring not primarily to serve their country or kind, but primarily to make money or have fun or simply be themselves and follow their passion. The inscription, recall, says "Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind"--better than what? Better, it seems logical to presume, than we could before entering the Yard in the first place...