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For years, and in many ways, Harvard has echoed this "call of service." In 1989, just before I arrived for the Freshman Urban Program, President Derek C. Bok sent all incoming students a letter, urging us "to devote [our] talents and energies in generous measure to the problems and welfare...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: Keeping the 'Call of Service' | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Despite what the campus press or anyone else may believe, neither I nor the vast majority of council members devote our time and energy in the hope of perfecting government. I challenge anyone to find 10 Harvard students outside Crimson staff and campers who honestly believe that adding a new...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ignores Students' Priorities | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

They are also the custodians of perhaps the most enduring and all-embracing pop-culture phenomenon of our time. Consider the industry that has grown out of a quirky TV series that ran for three years in the late 1960s, only to be canceled because of low ratings. Two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek: Trekking Onward | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

As a university, Harvard's primary purpose is to instruct. Granted, the research projects that go on here, in numerous fields, are among the finest in the world. One could even argue that it would be worthwhile for Harvard to devote all of its facilities and resources to this research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Ignores Teaching Ability | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

Shapiro would devote a quarter of the savings to deficit reduction and another quarter to middle-class tax relief in the form of a $710-a-year family tax credit per child. The remainder would be for programs to increase productivity and spark a rise in stagnating personal incomes. "We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Clinton's Identity Crisis | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

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