Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the closed-door portion of yesterday afternoon's Faculty meeting, the Faculty voted to dismiss Joshua M. Elster, Class of 2000, according to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...last month's meeting, the Faculty voted to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, also Class of 2000. Douglas pled guilty last September in Middlesex Superior Court to a charge of indecent assault and battery against a female undergraduate...
...have all heard the self-important Harvard talk of "effecting change to a greater scale." This is a usual response I have heard when students dismiss teaching as a short-term or long-term career possibility. Socially conscious students who nurture idealistic ambitions of saving the world aspire to "large scale change" through careers in law, medicine, government, educational policy or academia...
When the vote to dismiss Douglas came before the Faculty last month, five professors introduced a motion to lessen his punishment to simply a requirement to withdraw for five years...
...were fighting for causes we can barely understand now. They lived not in the apathetic environment of today's college campuses but in a political climate dominated by the shadow of a war that ended before we were born. They subscribed to political philosophies we now tend to dismiss as anachronistic, or as mere curiosities...