Word: honest
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...gentle, yet quietly serious, presence in the government department, where he left behind a legacy of academic integrity and devotion to undergraduate education, colleagues said. “He was so brilliant that you wanted to learn as much as you could from him and try to be as honest and as serious about your work as he was,” said government Professor Stephen P. Rosen ’74, a former student of Huntington’s. “He was an inspiration...He was always there for his students.” Huntington?...
...foods,” said Wrangham. The cooking thesis has raised excitement among Wrangham’s colleagues, according to Lieberman. “We take behaviors like cooking and food preparation for granted,” Lieberman said, “but we are obligate cookers. To be honest, nobody had really thought about it before Richard.” —Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire. “It was an aggressive but a reasonably sound plan,” Huchra says. “It would be hard to say that, at the time, what was being planned was the bad thing to do. To be honest, it’s hard to say now that what was being planned was a bad thing to do.”While a combination of over-ambition, poor communication, and bad fortune has exacerbated Harvard’s fiscal plight, the University’s top planners, at least...
...coming out of my mouth on one plane and I’m listening to them on another, thinking “Really? I’m the great defender, here?” More often than not, I’ve been frustrated with Harvard and, to be honest, there have been occasions when I’ve questioned my decision to come here. Harvard’s administrative structure is notoriously non-intuitive, and the doors to University Hall and the Holyoke Center seem to be revolving constantly as deans come and go. I’ve felt...
...while the hesitancy with criticism affects us negatively academically, it has far more profound an impact outside of the classroom. In particular, harsh, honest criticism is so rarified that students do not learn first how to accept and learn from criticism, and second they do not learn how to support and modify their positions. When criticism is encountered in outside contexts, it is either rejected or shied away from. Further, there is a sort of “perfection complex” that develops as a result...