Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reducing sexual pressure. Not surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that in O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi." Alternately poignant and humorous, this story is perhaps the best in the collection...
...weeks ago, the inevitable happened: a friend approached me and my roommates about giving to the Senior Gift. (Fear not, loyal Crimson readers. This is not another column about the Senior Gift.) Our classmate gave us the big sales pitch for why Harvard deserves our support: the incredible resources, the Faculty, the libraries and labs. And, inevitably, one of my roommates made one of the usual objections, that her friends, not the institution, had made her Harvard years memorable...
Since everything else had gone as expected, I figured that our classmate would give the usual response, that these marvelous friends are themselves products of the Admissions Office. But he surprised me. "Actually," he told us, "If there's one reason that I would avoid giving to the Senior Gift myself, it would be because of the students here. I think they're really smart and interesting and talented, and that's terrific, and I've made some great friends, but I've found that lots of them are so busy pursuing their own success that they never have time...
Before you dismiss my classmate as a disgruntled cynic, let me tell you that well-liked, upbeat person has spent the past four years in the company of a very happy group of friends-and let me remind you that no true cynic would volunteer for the Senior Gift. Yet what my classmate said was striking in its accuracy, and it made all of us pause to wonder. What, really, will be the legacy of the Class...
...want Harvard to be a place where we remember our classmates only for their measurable talents. But if we are to find out who they are in any other aspect, we need them to give us their time. Here, then, is my idea for a Senior Gift. The Class of 1999 should make a gift to current Harvard students not only of their dollars, but of their minutes, hours and days...