Word: everydayness
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It’s not everyday that an athlete gets the chance to compete for a national title. Junior distance runner Claire Richardson took advantage of one such rare opportunity on Friday night, capping off a stellar season on the track with a 19th-place finish and personal record in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA national championships in Eugene...
...more serious note, the hunger for nobility endangers everyday morality—because the latter is expected. What does it matter that you held the door open for a stranger? It’s not out of the ordinary. Or, at least, it wasn’t. Today, we act like the crucial tests come with the big things. Did you give up a lucrative job to help starving kids in Haiti? Did you take a stand against your government? Did you die in the line of duty? But the crucial tests come more often—in fact, they...
...actually learn more from my peers. I learned which of them were—beyond intelligent and hardworking—kind. Remember that Aristotle wrote his Ethics because he thought Plato had given the philosophers too much credit. They weren’t the only virtuous ones; the everyday people, who were rarely acknowledged for their actions, were good...
...protect the environment. We are also appreciative of the new community garden; the centrally-located plot of land by Lowell House serves as a hands-on classroom, fully functional garden, and an encouraging sign of Harvard’s commitment to sustainability being a part of students’ everyday live...
...negotiating challenge is to figure out together what are the appropriate ways to reward the staff and to honor the contribution that the staff have made and are making everyday, and that’s never an easy set of questions, even in more prosperous times,” Jaeger says...