Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil grips America, a life-sapping, drug-related habit. It beclouds reason and corrodes the spirit. It undermines authority and nourishes a low-minded culture of winks and smirks. It's the habit of drug prohibition, and it's quietly siphoning off the resources that might be better used for drug treatment or prevention. Numerous authorities have tried to warn us, including most recently the Surgeon General, but she got brushed off like a piece of lint. After all, drug prohibition is right up there with heroin and nicotine among the habits that are hell to kick...
Although the staff acknowledges that participation is the primary goal of the Gift, it fails to recognize that participation whether a $10 gift or a larger sum) is crucial so that the soon-to-be alumni get in the habit of giving money for years to come--when they have more money to give...
Gift Co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi 94 comments that the point of the Gift is not so much to raise a lot of money as to get people in the habit of giving to the College funded on donations, whether is was John Harvard or Anne Radcliffe," Abdi says. give, we're saying this is why they should give...
...knew there had to be another reason for the existence of the Senior Gift. Sure enough, the fellow senior I consulted offered me a much better explanation. "It gets you into the habit of giving to Harvard," she told...
...this really troubled me. If the goal of the exercise is to encourage the habit of giving, why ask different people to give different amounts? To encourage giving proportional to one's income, was the answer co-chair A. Jabbar Abdi '94 gave The Crimson in a recent interview...