Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time Harvard's baseball team won the Ivy League title, Ronald Reagan had just completed his first term as president and all the team's current players were still in grade school...
...hand, are more likely to have a vested interest in the notion of human interdependence: that we are not the freewheeling monads of free-enterprise ideology but vulnerable beings held together by mutual need. Thus to the residents of guy land, government often looks like the 50-ft. third-grade teacher from hell, taxing and regulating and otherwise spoiling the fun. But to a woman sandwiched between children and parents, the "Nanny state" is not a Republican pejorative but rather an extension of herself. Dump Granny out of the nursing home because the Medicare budget is too high...
...excellence "is compromised by the desire for diversity." Nearly all of its minority graduates--ostensibly those who benefited from affirmative action in getting in--have gone on to successful and fulfulling careers. Unable to empirically demonstrate inferior performance by minority students while at Harvard, Mansfield instead lashes out against grade inflation, an entirely separate issue...
...have a snapshot of myself from the spring of ninth grade, posing next to the John Harvard statue with a giant smirk on my face. I wanted it documented on film that Harvard and I were not a good match...
...through our Harvard years is not conducive to the mind-expanding and enlightening experiences that college life ought to provide. And yet, not enough of us realize that the speed is too fast. Too many of us have been able to complete the plan-of-study form since eighth grade. Too many have a thesis topic when they enter Harvard. Too many know exactly what field of interest they would like to pursue and therefore need little time to dabble...