Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having trusted Harvard to be the right environment for us to grow as scholars and as individuals, we now find a paternalistic administration eager to curb our liberties. One's decision to smoke and even one's decision whether or not to tolerate a roommate's smoking are under attack. As Eric M. Nelson '99, chair of the Undergraduate Council's Student Advisory Committee, described it in the Crimson article which recounted the COHL meeting, "Students are on their way to becoming adults, and it's important that they be able to make these sort of choices...
...movement she started will grow to be, a hundred years from now, the most influential of all time," predicted futurist and historian H.G. Wells in 1931. "When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history, and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine...
...over," she said simply, assuming that her words and opinions would no longer be of interest once her husband was dead and she was no longer First Lady. She could not have been more mistaken. As the years have passed, Eleanor Roosevelt's influence and stature have continued to grow. Today she remains a powerful inspiration to leaders in both the civil rights and women's movements...
...enter here to grow in religious wisdom? There are courses on religion, but experience is more powerful than scholastic involvement. For a start, go to one of the many churches in and around the Square, attend services at Hillel and read posters about Christian a cappella groups or the next event sponsored by the United Ministry, the umbrella group for religions at Harvard. Seek out the groups you feel you do not know enough about...
There is a problem, but affirmative action is not the solution. Take the analogy of growing plants. If one is put in good soil and given water and sunlight, it will grow tall and flower. Put that same plant in bad soil, neglect it of water or leave it in the shade, and the plant will not grow properly. If, seeing this malnourished plant, you pull on it to make it taller, could you then say it is a good flower? No. The solution is to give the flower what it needs from the start. Early education programs, Head Start...