Word: hearths
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...richly and traditionally appointed Harvard Faculty Club on the cover. In brackets below the photo: "warm welcome". It's almost too good to be true. For a mere $60 introductory membership, I can join the Harvard Faculty Club. This most elite institution will welcome me to sit by the hearth. But does this cheapen Harvard? I wonder what the professor who gave me a "C" in statistics would think to see me lounging around his club? But I momentarily considered joining...
...soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking for a holiday picnic under the oak tree in the backyard. And it was in this home-and-hearth spirit that the doughboys, G.I.s and grunts wrote back...
...Regional buying habits, for example, are taken into account. In Jacksonville, Fla., fire logs sell when temperatures dip into the 60s. In San Francisco, people buy when it's rainy. And in hardy Chicago, the mercury has to drop below 39[degrees]F for folks to gather round the hearth. "Before, it was tough to know whether a shift of 4[degrees] in temperature made any difference in sales," says Chris Caron, Duraflame's vice president of marketing. "Now we know it can make a tremendous difference." And the company has saved several hundred thousand dollars, Caron notes...
...this sounds familiar, it probably should. Throughout the cold war, complacent Americans watched with disdain as promising youngsters behind the Iron Curtain were plucked from home and hearth and sent to spend their childhood in athletic camps where they would be ruthlessly forged into international competitors, exemplars of the totalitarian ideal...
...have probably heard of the Inuit who barred a stranger from using his hearth because the fire might only be half as warm if two people shared it. Since a Harvard education should be a resource more like a fire than an apple, it is good to hear many students planning to share it by entering "public service" in one of three forms: financial contribution (apolitical donations to soup kitchens or inner-city programs), political office and direct service provision involving daily and face-to-face contact with clients. Overwhelmingly, however, Harvard students prefer the first two forms of public...