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Harvard has a substantial academic reputation, and I understand why Kurzman doesn't wish to see it tarnished. He completely fails to convince me, however, that fielding a dominant hockey team will have this effect. His discussion of the admissions, living, and academic perquisites Harvard athletes supposedly enjoy is, by his own admission, undocumented rumor. Gossipy tripe about football players bragging over low SAT scores is meaningless. Also, the connection between athletes, investment policy, women's studies, and Afro-American Studies completely escapes...
Some Harvard students enjoy visiting and even staying at the monastery. Anne Hallward '88, an Eliot House resident, says she attends services at the monastery because it is a smaller, more intimate service. "The common stereotype is that monks are withdrawn and uninvolved with the world whereas they are freed from other things and have time to really be involved in what is going on." Hallward says that the first time she attended a service at the monastery, she ended up sitting at the head table at the dinner following the service, and, to her surprise, found that the superior...
...Rousseau observed, the privileged among humankind "prize the things they enjoy only insofar as the others are deprived of them," and would cease to be happy if their social inferiors were granted equal enjoyment. If the University were attempting to increase the aggregate happiness of the entire community--regular students as well as Fly Club members--it has most assuredly failed...
...money sports simply do not deserve the numerous trainers, expensive equipment, lax admission standards, and other perquisites which they currently enjoy. To be sure, Harvard can and does pride itself on a sports operation considerably cleaner than most universities. But this is having one's cake and eating it too: Harvard tries to claim saintliness and to sin a little at the same time...
...document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well, a new legislature will be in place within a year. In the meantime, said Aquino, the provisional "Freedom Constitution" should allow a nation undermined by 20 years of Marcos' rule to "heal its wounds, restore its strength and enjoy the fruits of its newfound freedom...